[Mears]

I was born in 1932.

We got all of the diseases.

I never heard of anyone who died from Measles.

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[Morpheus2009]

Think about how much 1 out of 10,000 or 1 out of 12,000 is. You could statistically have thousands infected to get one person dead or crippled from measles. It would be hard to find, unless someone really close to you died of it.

[JohnBovenmyer]

I was born in 1932... So you were born 14 years after the 1918 influenza pandemic. Very likely your parents both had known many who died in that. Did they ever talk about it much? I didn't think so, most didn't. Most didn't talk about losing kids to childhood disease much either. I presume it hurt too much to bring back those memories. And most of us don't morbidly go in search of such information. But that doesn't mean the information… and the deaths didn't exist.