Mumps, Measles, Chickenpox,,,childhood events. Everyone got them. What is the big deal?!
With German measles (also known as Rubella or Three-day measles), no big deal. With "red" measles, people die. Kind of a big deal, don't you think?
My older brother died of red measles when he was ten I was five and I was in the hospital for a month with pneumonia, I still show glass lung scarring from it in my 50s. We had religious exemptions from MMR vaccines.
This outbreak is spreading amongst unvaccinated Mennonites who also have religious eexemptions from MMR and a slew of.other vaccines.
As a 17yo adult free from my parents religious zealotry and via Uncle Sam was hit with 20+ shots the second I got to MCRD and was sick for weeks while enduring some of the hardest physical activity any person ever will. Vaccines have a propose and for things like polio, tetanus,smallpox and measles they eradicated stone cold killer of bugs only Fing morons would refuse life saving vaccines proven to work.