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Measles is not a killer disease like cancer that has sky rocketed in number of deaths (over 7000%) in the last 50 years, heart disease or diabetes that are the top 3 killers that the CDC along with the medical establishment does not want to ask why?

Cancer, heart disease and diabetes are not viruses and they are not contagious unlike Measles which is one of the most highly contagious viruses know to man. If you are unvaccinated or had never had it previously, i.e. lacking immunity, there is a about a 90% chance that if exposed, you will contract it. But if you or I come in contact with someone because of their poor life style choices or their “bad” genetics, their predestination for them, has heart disease, diabetes or HBP, there is a zero chance you or I will come down with heart disease, diabetes or HBP from coming into contact with them.

The same with Cancer. I can be around people with cancer all day long but I’m not going to catch cancer from them. But if I OTOH, I have not been vaccinated against preventable diseases, I could expose a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy, which is for them a very deadly disease and for which, whether they had previously been vaccinated for or had it as a child, because of their compromised immune system, they could contract it from me and with deadly consequences.

And Measles is not a simple childhood disease or a “rite of passage”. Measles has a rather high rate of serious and sometimes deadly complications like pneumonia and encephalitis.

Before 1963, when the measles vaccine became available for public use in the U.S., there were more than 500,000 reported measles cases every year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. On average, 432 cases a year resulted in death. After an effective vaccination campaign, that number dwindled to 86 measles cases by 2000, with zero fatalities.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/marc-siegel-fear-measles-not-vaccines-1422315797

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Measles, a viral respiratory infection, killed over 500,000 children in 2003, more than any other vaccine-preventable disease. The measles death toll in Africa is so high – every minute one child dies – that many mothers don't give children real names until they have survived the disease. Measles weakens the immune system and renders children very susceptible to fatal complications from diarrhoea, pneumonia and malnutrition. Those that survive may suffer blindness, deafness or brain damage.

Compared to Measles (and FWIW, Malaria), the all so scary Ebola is a mere piker and Johnny Come Lately as a killer.

I will also point out that a pregnant woman exposed to Measles can have miscarriages and pre-term and babies with low weight births that lead to many lifelong complications.

As to your claim that cancer rates have “skyrocked”, that is not supported by fact. Cancer rates are actually down, have dropped 22 percent in two decades. This is thanks in part to lower tobacco usage and preventative screenings for lung, breast, prostate and colon cancers.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article8903852.html

But also consider that some cancers like prostate and colon cancers and even some forms of breast cancer are more prevalent among older populations. Prostate cancer in particular is for the most part, a slow moving cancer found mostly in elderly men. That many more older men are today being diagnosed with prostate cancer does not necessarily correspond to a higher rate of prostate cancer overall but that more men are living to a much older age because of better healthcare , improved diets, improvements in sanitation, antibiotics, and vaccinations against killer childhood diseases. A boy who died from complications of Measles, or Mumps or Chicken Pox or Influenza, is never going to at 80+ years old be diagnosed with prostate cancer.