re: The Anti-Science Advocates have won: Measles Outbreak in NYC

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The percentage of people that died from measles in the US when vaccines were introduced was roughly .0002%. More people die of diabetes, yet we continue to make processed sugar and food.

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You described deaths.

What was the rate of occurrence of measles pre-vaccination? There are other terrible outcomes from measles besides death.

I went and looked up the information for you.

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Measles can be prevented by the combination MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. In the decade before the measles vaccination program began, an estimated 3–4 million people in the United States were infected each year, of whom 400–500 died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and another 1,000 developed chronic disability from measles encephalitis. Widespread use of measles vaccine has led to a greater than 99% reduction in measles cases in the United States compared with the pre-vaccine era, and in 2012, only 55 cases of measles were reported in the United States.

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Would you rather prevent the disease or treat it? The reason deaths decreased is because we became better with treatment.