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To: Valpal1

What is different about measles these days? I must have had it two or three times as a child. I even remember parents bring their children over to pay in order for them to catch it.


17 posted on 02/26/2025 10:12:28 AM PST by PUGACHEV
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To: PUGACHEV

pay=play


18 posted on 02/26/2025 10:12:58 AM PST by PUGACHEV
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To: PUGACHEV

Ooh, I think you misremember your childhood. Measles was a huge cause of birth defects when pregnant women were expose. Measles was a quarantined disease. Chickenpox had parties.

And measles wipes your immune system memory leaving the patient exposed to a wide array of secondary infections that often damaged or killed them, usually pneumonia or meningitis.

When my siblings and I got it, it was treated with Gamma Globulin, which my father claimed cost $200 a pop back in the early 60’s.

He had a withered arm from polio so us kids were vaxxed six ways from Sunday, we turned out fine.


21 posted on 02/26/2025 10:21:21 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: PUGACHEV

You did not have the measles ( the long horrible one) more than once a many disease cause a rash on the body That is not measles


34 posted on 02/26/2025 11:12:54 AM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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