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I went looking for some reliable data on measles.

So I found this info from 2015 Before all the HYPE.

The Current hysteria over measles does not seem to be warranted.

>So in the 2013 Brazil outbreak There was one death out of 1065 cases.

>In the 1970s the highest mortality rates were 14-55 deaths out of 100,000. At 55 that is a .0005 percent death rate.

Measles in Latin America: Current Situation

Article 2015

https://academic.oup.com/jpids/article/4/3/179/2580184

Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Disieases Society

Excerpts

The Region of the Americas (North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean) successfully interrupted endemic measles transmission in 2002, but recent outbreaks in Latin America threaten to reverse this impressive achievement. Before widespread measles immunization in Latin America, measles was a common illness in early childhood and was associated with substantial mortality. During the 1960s, 600 000 measles cases were reported annually in the Region of the Americas [ 1 ]. Although measles vaccine was introduced during the 1960s, it was the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expanded Program on Immunization in 1977 that marked the beginning of sustained decreases in case numbers. During 1970–1979, Latin American countries reported 220 000 measles cases annually, with incidence rates of 47–116 cases/100 000 population [ 2 ]. The highest mortality rates occurred among young children; from 1971 through 1980, measles associated mortality was 14–55 measles-associated deaths per 100 000 infants and 8–54 deaths/100 000 children aged 1–4 years. By 1980, most countries in the region had established national immunization programs; however, the mean infant measles vaccine coverage in the region was only 42%. In 2002, after more than 30 years of successful strategies and joint efforts of many countries in the region, interruption of endemic measles transmission in the Americas was achieved [ 3 ]. However, isolated cases continue to occur, due to the importation of measles from other areas of the world, sometimes causing short chains of transmissions over a few months.

The present outbreak began in Brazil in 2013, with a total of 1065 cases through May of 2015. The outbreak began in the northeastern State of Pernambuco in 2013, where 224 cases were reported, predominantly affecting children <1 year of age (110; 49%) distributed among 24 municipalities. The virus belonged to genotype D8, the same as that circulated in Europe in 2013 [ 8 ].

The outbreak then spread to the neighboring northeastern state of Ceará, causing 694 cases in 2014, and 141 more from January to May 2015 [ 8 , 9 ]. However, this outbreak predominantly affected individuals between 15 and 29 years of age (283; 34.0%), as opposed to children <1 year of age (229; 27.5%). In both Pernambuco and Ceará, the distribution of cases by age group appeared to shift over the period of the outbreak, first predominating among children <1 year of age and later among persons 15–29 years of age. In addition, there was some variation of the age distribution between rural areas and the inner city regions.

Among individuals >12 months who developed measles, 10.7% (80 of 745) had been vaccinated with 1 dose of measles-containing vaccine, and 1.6% (12 of 745) had received 2 doses [ 9 ]. Among 252 cases with available records, typical signs and symptoms of measles were noted: rash (252; 100%), fever (252; 100%), cough (213; 84.5%), rhinorrhea (172; 68.2%), and conjunctivitis (152; 60.3%). Nearly 60 patients were hospitalized, but fortunately there was only 1 fatality (in a 7-month-old infant seropositive for both human immunodeficiency virus and syphilis) [ 8 , 9 ]