Why is there hysteria now over measles and chicken pox? They are not diseases, they’re infections and when we were growing up just about everyone I knew had both and no one died. You stayed at home, maybe saw a doctor, if you had a bad enough case and then got over it.
Since nobody commented on the other item Perplexed inquired about – chicken pox is normally not fatal for children, but if you don’t get chicken pox until you’re adult, it definitely could kill you.
Why is there hysteria now over measles and chicken pox? They are not diseases, they’re infections and when we were growing up just about everyone I knew had both and no one died. You stayed at home, maybe saw a doctor, if you had a bad enough case and then got over it.
People can and have died of the measles, unfortunately. Roald Dahl’s daughter, for one. It’s not commonly fatal but can be.
Bottom line: people need to get vaccinated. Diseases like measles were all but unheard of in the US until the anti-vax movement.
My cousin was born deaf because his mother contracted measles while pregnant; not something you just “get over.”
Since nobody commented on the other item Perplexed inquired about – chicken pox is normally not fatal for children, but if you don’t get chicken pox until you’re adult, it definitely could kill you.