[arthurus]

I am of an age such that I am mystified at all the hoorah about measles. When I was young every kid got measles. It was just one of the things you did as a kid and then never had to do it again, like chicken pox.

[TangledUpInBlue]

Exactly. And all of my kids got the MMR Vaccination (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) so how are so many kids getting infected??? Does the vaccination wear off? Is this some new strain of measles?

[Gamecock]

•As many as one out of every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia, the most common cause of death from measles in young children.
•About one child out of every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain) that can lead to convulsions and can leave the child deaf or mentally retarded.
•For every 1,000 children who get measles, one or two will die from it.

Measles may cause pregnant woman to give birth prematurely, or have a low-birth-weight baby.

Source

[LibsRJerks]

Anti-vaccination crowd being blamed, but here we have a sudden onset outbreak at the same time and in areas highly populated by newly invading illegals, which is now just about anywhere in the us -—

The anti-vaccine movement has been around at least 10 yrs or longer ....why no outbreaks until now?

[LibsRJerks]

In a small percentage of measles you will see neurological and pulmonary complications ....

[ifinnegan]

Measles was worse than chicken pox.