Bfriedli said:
curl-6 said:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000359.htm?mobile=nocontent
If the students had not been vaccinated, those 21 cases could have been 200, and more severe ones as well, as even diminished immunity is associated with milder illness.
This case is an example of herd immunity limiting the scope of an outbreak.
Measles IS a deadly disease. It killed 145,000 people in 2013 alone; about 400 every day. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/
From your link:
"About 1 in 1,000 people with measles get encephalitis, a serious brain infection. Measles illness during pregnancy can cause early labor, miscarriage, and low birth weight infants. Measles in people with AIDS or weak immune systems can be very severe. In the U.S. people can still die from measles (about 2 per 1,000, usually related to pneumonia or encephalitis)."
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Lol. Limiting the outbreak, true but this shows it doesn't work!! Sorry to typo 5% too, not 50%.
Again for the millionth time, talking about USA NOT WORLD NUMBERS!! We have acess to medical and extremly cleaner living condition. And in the USA there has been around 1800 cases in the last 15 years. So 1 person in the last 15 years got encephalitis. Compared to over 100 deaths from the measles vacine. JUST CLARIFYING AGAIN USA ONLY.
http://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html
http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/opinion-search
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It shows no such thing. Without it, the virus would have spread through those school like wildfire instead of only affecting a small number, and mild cases could have been life theatening ones instead. Over 400 students were at the school, and only about 5% of those were infected. That's incredibly low considering that without immunity, 90% of people sharing a space with a Measles carrier will catch it.
And the 100 deaths from the vaccine was already debunked by another poster above me.
The only reason Measles cases and deaths in the US are so low is because of extensive vaccination. 1 in 500 Measles cases is fatal in the US. If vaccination keeps the case count low, that means no deaths. Once vaccination rates drop, case counts go up, and with it the likelihood of deaths.
