“It would be hard to find, unless someone really close to you died of it.”
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Very true but even the adults on those days didn’t fear measles.
Scarlet fever and polio were the big fears.
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That’s because in relative risk, scarlet fever was worse. Also, polio is scary because it is a stealth disease. Most people who get polio carry polio without severe symptoms, which made it a sick lottery draw of sorts, since a person could easily spread polio without realizing that they even had it in the first place.