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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 6003625" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;Before vaccines, measles, mumps, rubella, and polio infected millions of Americans every year. In 1952, more than 3,000 children <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/10/16/162670836/wiping-out-polio-how-the-u-s-snuffed-out-a-killer" target="_blank">died of polio</a>, and thousands more were permanently paralyzed. Measles typically killed <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html" target="_blank">400 to 500 people a year</a>, again mostly children. Mumps is usually mild, but can cause viral meningitis, which can be fatal. And ironically given the anti-vaccine lie that vaccines cause autism, the rubella vaccine <a href="https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/infectious-diseases-a-z-breaking-down-the-mmr-vaccine/" target="_blank">actually </a><a href="https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/infectious-diseases-a-z-breaking-down-the-mmr-vaccine/" target="_blank">prevents</a><a href="https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/infectious-diseases-a-z-breaking-down-the-mmr-vaccine/" target="_blank"> autism</a>, because if pregnant women get it, the virus is notorious for causing severe birth defects, including but not limited to autism.&quot;Ryan Cooper</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 6003625, member: 54375"] "Before vaccines, measles, mumps, rubella, and polio infected millions of Americans every year. In 1952, more than 3,000 children [U][URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/10/16/162670836/wiping-out-polio-how-the-u-s-snuffed-out-a-killer']died of polio[/URL][/U], and thousands more were permanently paralyzed. Measles typically killed [U][URL='https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html']400 to 500 people a year[/URL][/U], again mostly children. Mumps is usually mild, but can cause viral meningitis, which can be fatal. And ironically given the anti-vaccine lie that vaccines cause autism, the rubella vaccine [U][URL='https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/infectious-diseases-a-z-breaking-down-the-mmr-vaccine/']actually [/URL][I][URL='https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/infectious-diseases-a-z-breaking-down-the-mmr-vaccine/']prevents[/URL][/I][URL='https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/infectious-diseases-a-z-breaking-down-the-mmr-vaccine/'] autism[/URL][/U], because if pregnant women get it, the virus is notorious for causing severe birth defects, including but not limited to autism." Ryan Cooper [/QUOTE]

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