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    9 days ago

    Measles has a low death rate .1% but some of the long term side effects like brain swelling because you are afraid of a vaccine is not worth it.

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        Examination of child mortality rates in the U.S., U.K., and Denmark in the decades before and after the introduction of the measles vaccine revealed that nearly half of all childhood deaths from infectious disease could be related to MV infection when the disease was prevalent. That means infections other than measles resulted in death, due to the MV effect on the immune system.

        MV = measles virus

        Well that’s way worse than I thought.