Reposted by Ginny Maier
Measles doesn't just maim & kill.
Measles is expensive & unpleasant w/something like 25% of measles cases requiring hospitalizations.
Which is a lot of fucking money & capacity even in a "small" outbreak.
I just* dissociated so fucking hard.
This all feels so fucking unreal & bizarre.
*spiked
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Inpatient morbidity and mortality of measles in the United States
Measles is an extremely contagious, vaccine-preventable infection that was officially declared eradicated in the US in 2000. However, measles outbreaks are increasingly occurring in the US. Measles ca...