{"id":49368,"date":"2015-01-26T14:46:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/measles-isnt-dangerous-yeesh.html"},"modified":"2015-01-26T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T21:46:22","slug":"measles-isnt-dangerous-yeesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/measles-isnt-dangerous-yeesh.html","title":{"rendered":"Measles isn&#039;t dangerous? Yeesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Direct fatality from the measles isn&#39;t high (though it&#39;s worse for kids), but there are a lot of adverse health effects from measles infections that stop short of actual death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/medical_examiner\/2015\/01\/measles_outbreak_at_disney_anti_mmr_vaccine_activists_claim_disease_isn.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/VYzy71SC_VPPeB8Hjxu_IZbbzbpisb_5V6sTk_05Ylq18k869lViPDiz-QY9uUaZgDvvisBxcfXlZszuBbZf1HzSlXXu9jbLglGadhziKvW4Z7nUXgPeoriKap67A4lMbTzGTVrkuHHYWmxSCMSW6q8JZ-OQbGtpOtapzl6dCTfqkF7chiPoDmPld6GUGf-Qc1tBLyYtekSoGLbpBkSZmut88cb9ty2rzPWCjz8Is0PtbViOpZB8DABggCtL8uc9xUs=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/medical_examiner\/2015\/01\/measles_outbreak_at_disney_anti_mmr_vaccine_activists_claim_disease_isn.html'>The Anti-Vaccine Movement Says Measles Isn&rsquo;t Dangerous. Oh, Yes, It Is.<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMeasles is back. Again. An outbreak is percolating that was first documented in California and has spread to four other Western states and Mexico. An unknown person incubating a measles infection exposed an undetermined number of individuals at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, resulting in 53 cases identified to date. The&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/gfwgVC3agcZ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct fatality from the measles isn&#39;t high (though it&#39;s worse for kids), but there are a lot of adverse health effects from measles infections that stop short of actual death. The Anti-Vaccine Movement Says Measles Isn&rsquo;t Dangerous. Oh, Yes, It Is. Measles is back. Again. An outbreak is percolating that was first documented in California &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/measles-isnt-dangerous-yeesh.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Measles isn&#039;t dangerous? Yeesh&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50595,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/immunizing-against-measles-does-more-than-immunize-against-measles.html","url_meta":{"origin":49368,"position":0},"title":"Immunizing against measles does more than immunize against measles","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-May-15 11:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Where the measles vaccine has been introduced, not only to a lot fewer people get measles (duh), but a bunch of other mortality rates go down, not directly associated with measles.A new study indicates that measles not only has the ill effects of the disease itself (which kills usually through\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130492,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/26\/thanks-anti-vaxxers-youve-revived-measles-in-the-us.html","url_meta":{"origin":49368,"position":1},"title":"Thanks, anti-vaxxers! 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