[Shethink13]

mumps and measles can be dangerous for little kids at times. also, the measles virus can stay in you for years and then resurface again and you got shingles in your old age. shingles can be very difficult for some people.

Shingles is varicella-zoster - the chicken pox virus, not measles.

How many of the infected suffered serious, long-term effects from contracting measles? There seems to be a bit of an overreaction to this, as if everyone who contracted the measles suffered a horrible death.

[faithhopecharity]

oops sorry about that mistake.
thanks

[Valpal1]

In the absence of vaccination, rubella is an endemic disease with epidemics every 6 to 9 years. During the 1962–1965 global rubella pandemic, an estimated 12.5 million rubella cases occurred in the United States, resulting in 2,000 cases of encephalitis, 11,250 therapeutic or spontaneous abortions, 2,100 neonatal deaths, and 20,000 infants born with CRS.[4]

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/surv-manual/chpt15-crs.html#f4

Rubella is extremely dangerous to pregnant women in the first trimester when many do not even know they are pregnant.

[trebb]

How many of the infected suffered serious, long-term effects from contracting measles? There seems to be a bit of an overreaction to this, as if everyone who contracted the measles suffered a horrible death.

While German measles is a bit more dangerous (I had it as a child), mumps/measles/chickenpox seemed to be cause for party time (in the '50s anyway) to get the kids in the neighborhood exposed and over them childhood diseases.

I did recently get a shingles vaccination in hopes I don't have to go through the discomfort in my old age...