Measles is deadly. About 1 in 5 unvaccinated people in the US with measles will be hospitalized, and as many as 1 in 20 children with measles will get pneumonia, which is the most common cause of death from measles in young children. About 3 out of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from respiratory and neurologic complications. When we were kids, I lost a step-brother to measles.
Those were stats from the early mid sixties.
and a lot of the kids who died were health compromises such as hemopheliacs, downs kids, cystic fibrosis kids
Medicine is different these days
And how old are those stats?
Since measles has effectively been eliminated, they can't be current. And medical treatment with anti-biotics, anti-virals, and anti-inflammatories, along with other improved treatments can greatly change that outcome. Those things were NOT available when we were kids with the measles.
So the medical community has no virtually experience using current medical resources to give stats like that.