I had measles, mumps and chicken pox when I was a kid.
We all did. Nobody died.
Yup. When little Johnny down the street got measels all the neighborhood kids had to go play with him. Same with Chicken Pox and Mumps.
Somehow the entire human race survived common childhood diseases that we all did.
And as for complications of measles, that risk is far lower today than it was when we were kids because of vastly improved medical care and antibiotics and antivirals, and anti-inflammatories.
Actually some folks did others were left blind or deaf
Nasty illness causes lots of bad things
I had chicken pox and mumps at the same time.
I remember the playing with the boy upstairs who also had the mumps.
He was a couple of years older than me and occasionally teased and annoyed me.
Well, apparently I was more irritable than sick because I hit him with a chair and bloodied his nose.
My Mom and his mom were shocked, but my Dad got a chuckle out of it.
I had 30% mortality Smallpox at age 10, and now I am still healthy soon to burn 85 candles. I think having been vaccinated at age 5 was the reason I survived. Those antibodies present from vaccine helped subdue smallpox virus.
Ditto, I had chicken pox, both kinds of measles and mumps on both sides at the same time. Now I’m vaccinated.
My best friend was an only child so when I caught something her Mom would send her over to sit with me and play checkers. she got every I got. 😏
I remember in 5th Grade when We were marched into the School Library and there was a Nurse with a large black squared off “pistol” with a chrome tip and they “shot” Us in the left upper arm, no alcohol swab involved. Just “click, wooosh” and next. HURT LIKE }{€££ !!!
I have no idea what it was for, but they did All of Us.
“Nobody died.”
This is flat out wrong. The US had ~6,000 measles deaths a year at the beginning of the 20th century. After the vaccine in 1963, it dropped to 500 a year, and as the disease was eradicated, we had 0 in most years, though there have been periodic outbreaks, like in 2000, where 87 died.
It is flat out stupid to lump long proven vaccines like Measles and Polio with newer vaccines that may not have had the same level of rigor applied.
We see recent outbreaks with fatalities.
https://www.cdc.gov/Mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00038792.htm
To reiterate the point, we had our first measles death in the current outbreak here in Texas. Unvaccinated, school age child.
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/texas-announces-first-death-measles-outbreak