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sundin13 said:
Bfriedli said:

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

How about you take a look over to Germany to see where we could go if we allow vaccination rates to drop. There are about 122-2308 cases of measles each year in Germany, some fatal, and the population of the USA is about 4x theirs. This would mean rates equivalent to 500-9000 cases each year. According to curl's stats, 1/1000 get encephalitis and 2/1000 cases are fatal (in the US). This would mean a rate of about 1-18 deaths per year if we allow vaccination rates to drop. Germany isn't some third world country...

http://www.dw.de/measles-rise-sparks-vaccine-debate-in-germany/a-16932413

In just the last 4 months in Germany, there have been 375 cases of measles...this is a real problem

http://www.dw.de/berlin-outbreak-blasts-hopes-of-eradicating-measles-in-germany-by-2015/a-18235648

PS: In some limited number of cases, the vaccine doesn't result in full immunity, which is just another reason why herd immunity is important. We need to keep our percentages above the herd immunity threshold to protect those who can't get vaccinated and those who didn't gain full immunity.

the most cases come from schools for children of very special parents.  rightwing, organic,vegan,alternative medicine.

homeopathy is very strong in the group of the highr educated without proper scientific education.