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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]people have forgotten that measles can kill children. https://fs.blog/roald-dahl-letter-daughter/[/quote] Thank goodness it’s not 1962. Today death from measles itself is extremely rare. [/quote] Per the CDC: For every 1,000 children who get measles, one or two will die from it. As many as one out of every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia, the most common cause of death from measles in young children. About one child out of every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain) that can lead to convulsions and can leave the child deaf or with intellectual disability. I should skip vaccinating my child because the risk of death is rare? I should go out in public while contagious and ignore quarantine protocols? [/quote]
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