David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 18/11/2025It wasn't why I checked 1890s NZ yearbooks, but while I was there I noticed that in 1893 there were about 83,400 kids under 5 years of age, and 382 were killed by measles that year (So half a percent of all under 5s) 94315
David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 18/11/2025the main one would be about 1% of cases with permanent hearing loss, about 0.1% of cases with some form of brain damage (mainly Encephalitis) 200
