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Is there a number of measles cases we're hoping to exceed? How many deaths?

I am actually enraged at the measles outbreaks. Measles can and should be eradicated completely, because there is no non human source for measles. Rather like smallpox.

I'm old enough that I had measles (as well as chicken pox and mumps) as a child. So I've spent much of my life thinking these are trivial illnesses. Well. I'm completely wrong about that.

Read Booster Shots by Adam Ratner. I thought I knew a lot about epidemiology, and this book taught me a whole lot more.

but I was thinking about taking a bong hit since the number of cases exceeded the magical "420" mark. Then again, I'm willing to rationalize anything to get high. Hopefully, I won't have to contemplate the same action if the death toll runs that high.

On a more serious note, I had the MMR vaccine so I never had measles, but I had mumps when I was about a year old according to my sister. I remember having the chicken pox when I was in third grade and gave it to my brother who was in seventh grade. I was away from class for 18 days so it was one of the significant events of my youth.

because I was born a long time ago. The only vaccines available were smallpox and DPT. I was about seven when the first polio vaccines came out. My sons got chicken pox, a year or two before that vaccine came out.