[Disestablishmentarian]

>>Before widespread measles vaccination, nearly 3 million people died of it every year.<<

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NOT TRUE!

Here is from the CDC website:
In the decade before 1963 when a vaccine became available, nearly all children got measles by the time they were 15 years of age. It is estimated 3 to 4 million people in the United States were infected each year. Also each year an estimated 400 to 500 people died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 4,000 suffered encephalitis (swelling of the brain) from measles.

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html

[exDemMom]

My numbers are worldwide rates, not US rates. I thought I made that clear.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs286/en/