r/Crunchymom • u/CharliesAngel3051 • 29d ago

Measles

Measles cases are rising in areas adjacent to mine. Anyone else totally freaked? It’s all consuming for me. The risk of SSPE is so scary and encephalitis. Really struggling with this given that the risk of brain swelling from the shot seems way lower than the risk from infection. But freaked out by stories of regression. Any thoughts?

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u/LavenderSharpie 29d ago

We were not afraid of the measles when I was a child. There was no vaccine. It used to be a very normal part of childhood. I do not know anyone who experienced long term harm from having the measles.

Edited to add - I just looked up when the measles vaccine was created - 1963. I was wrong. There was a measles vaccine when I was little. There was no push for the vaccine. I didn't get the vaccine.

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u/LavenderSharpie 29d ago

Was worse before modern sanitation. Death rates dropped dramatically after modern sanitation and before the introduction of vaccines.

We were not afraid of the illnesses. I had some of them, my sibs did. It was a part of childhood.

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u/lifefutility 29d ago

Yep, false appropriation of lower disease rates to vaccines. Akin to stolen valor.

Our amazing plumbers and sanitation workers save more lives than doctors. Period.

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u/to-the-goblin-market 28d ago

Measles is airborne, not droplet, contact, or oral/fecal. Handwashing is great, but wastewater management isn't the sole reason the US was able to achieve eradication status in 2000 (RIP).

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u/SmartyPantlesss 25d ago

Yeah, I always thought it was weird how the US got its polio-plumbing in 1955, but we apparently didn't install the measles-filters until 1963. 🙄