[arthurus]

When I was a kid 100 cases in 14 states would not have been termed an “outbreak” and would not have induced the official panic that we have now.

[GailA]

FDA GI ISSUES CONFERENCE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3258401/posts

[Roos_Girl]

"Worldwide, there are still hundreds of thousands of measles-related deaths each year. A decade before children began receiving the measles vaccine (given as the MMR—measles, mumps, rubella—vaccine series since 1971) in the United States, 3-4 million Americans would become infected annually. About 30 percent would experience potentially life-threatening complications. The vaccine program led to a 99 percent reduction in infections, and the disease was declared virtually eradicated in 2000."

This paragraph is a little misleading, although technically correct. However, the rest of the story is that of those 3 - 4 million, 300 - 500 died, or about 0.017% and 1000 had permanent injury, or about 0.033%.