Quote Originally Posted by Tenlaar View Post
People die. It sucks and all I guess, but it happens. People die in all kinds of crazy ways. People die from falling out of bed. People die from tripping while walking down a sidewalk. People drown in their bathtubs.

I am not anti-vaccination. I am anti-baseless hysteria. When a disease kills an average of one person a year, no, I don't consider it dangerous. Pointing out that 500 something people out of roughly 320,000,000 got the measles does not suddenly make it a dangerous epidemic.
From 20 seconds of googling... "However, the majority of measles patients will feel extremely sick for approximately one week, and up to 30% will suffer some sort of complication to the disease, ranging from diarrhea, ear infections, or pneumonia to seizures or hearing loss as a result of swelling in the brain. In some areas of the world without widespread access to medical care, up to 5% of children die of the measles."

I suppose a lot depends on what level of medical care you have available.