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To: jeannineinsd; RightWhale; Little Bill
In the United States, measles can be fatal in up to three per 1,000 children who contract it.

I wonder about this factoid. I grew up in a town of about 10,000 people in the 1960s. As far as I know, every kid had measles, and nobody ever suffered any serious aftereffects.

9 posted on 02/16/2008 11:56:27 AM PST by TheMole
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To: TheMole; Little Bill

You don’t remember because it didn’t make the news. It didn’t make the news becaue it was the normal and expected thing.

Three per 1000. Did either of you know 330 kids?

And, of course, that’s statistical, not a guarantee that, even if you did know that many, there would have been a death in that group.


10 posted on 02/16/2008 12:03:42 PM PST by From many - one.
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To: TheMole
I think that it is like polio, "McNeil, "Plagues and People", when the water suppy sucked Polio was a childhood illness, like measles.

When people discovered that if you pooped in the water supply you got cholera, not something you want to get. They cleaned up the water people lost childhood immunity to polio and it became nasty for one that contracted it in adulthood, First Dictator FDR for example, hey this is a political site. There is a Quid Pro in the immunization program, A. You won't get the illness, B. If you do get it, and no shots, the odds of you getting your 18 sq feet of ground is greater. In my own opinion is that the old was are best, get when you are young survive and live to be an old fart like me.

The point of this is remember the poor Indians, measles killed them because of NO exposure. The up side to this is that Bubba had the mumps and is unable to breed.

11 posted on 02/16/2008 12:26:09 PM PST by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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To: TheMole

I lived in LA until I was 9, had the measles and everyone I knew had the measles, no one died from it. We also had the mumps, whooping cough and chicken pocks and still, no one died. Just because these children are not illegals(not immigrants, immigrants are legal)does not mean they didn’t catch them from illegals. Many poor people won’t take their children to doctors for things like measles, so it is pretty difficult to say where these children contracted the measles. The odds are these kids will be fine with no lasting effects. People have sure gotten soft since the 50s, I can say that much, bunch of wimps, even here on FR.


14 posted on 02/16/2008 1:50:45 PM PST by calex59
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