Vaccines play a crucial role in preventing infectious diseases, saving lives while misconceptions persist about their dangers. The rarity of vaccine-related deaths contrasts with the ongoing risks of vaccine-preventable diseases. Maintaining high vaccination rates is essential to avoid outbreaks and protect public health, as hesitancy can lead to severe consequences.
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Not only are measles infections deadly, usually from pneumonia and encephalitis, but a natural measles infection can also cause years of immunosuppression, increasing your risk of death from other diseases too.
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While you likely don’t remember when large epidemics of measles would close schools, it’s a reminder that measles wasn’t thought of as the mild disease that some claim it was.
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Kids are still dying of measles and the big take away should be that it doesn’t take thousands of cases for there to be a death and it can happen to a healthy child in a developed country with modern healthcare.
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