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Over the last 25 years, six people who contracted measles in the U.S. died from it. A model built by Stanford researchers predicts that if Americans could no longer get the vaccine, measles could kill about 290,000 people in the next 25 years.

projects.propublica.orgThe Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines VanishResearchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

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Over the last 25 years, six people who contracted measles in the U.S. died from it. A model built by Stanford researchers predicts that if Americans could no longer get the vaccine, measles could kill about 290,000 people in the next 25 years.

In 1960 my mother (I was 5) died of tetanus from a cut that got infected while she was gardening. I have letters my grandfather wrote about how awful it was.

Are we really having to reinvent this wheel?? I cannot with ‘da stoopids’: permitting terrible, preventable diseases to surge and having to explain herd immunity with an IKEA-style diagram is NOT WINNING, its regression to the Dark Ages! FFS.

In retrospect I guess I was lucky to get measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox although at the time it was miserable. Hoping the midterms bring change.

Stanford and researchers in one sentence is exactly what the right have been programmed to fear the most - education, and general knowledge. This alone will repel them.

I really feel like those numbers are low so as to not cause panic. Because Measles on top of everyone's cumulative Covid infection damage is going to be a shitshow especially with everything else. It'll be a wonder if humanity survives into the next century tbh. 😷🫰

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You mean you can't pray the measles away? You mean you can't pray the polio away? You mean you can't pray TB away? You mean you can't pray the gay away? Religious extremists are uneducated and ignorant but by all means follow them off the cliff.

People can die after getting a cold too. Those who are fragile can die from any illness. Measles is not a death sentence, and once you've had it, you have lifetime immunity. Vaccines do not guarantee immunity. Stop being the MedicalGESTAPO. Americans want Medical Choice Rights back.

Measles is an ELIMINATED disease. If cases pop up, they can be treated and vax'd locally. Done. WE ARE NOT LIVING IN THE DARK AGES. All you're going to accomplish with these ScareScams is to send Moderate Voters back to Trump.

Yes, virulent diseases such as Polio should be vax'd for - but Measles is generally milder than most flu. We deserve CHOICE over vaxes for Eliminated+Eradicated diseases, and never have unnecessary experimental drugs forced on us, as with Covid. Unnecessary vaxes are only to make BigPharma richer!

I wonder whether they looked only at measles. If most childhood vaccines became unavailable, that would push the estimate lower because so many kids would die of another disease first. There’s still value in considering measles in isolation, of course.

Vaccines work. Limiting them in any way, from research and development to availability and injection, is so alien to our stellar history of solid public health.