The vaccine has saved 94 million lives – but measles is spreading again
A disease we once believed belonged to the past is now resurging in both Europe and the United States. In the shadow of growing skepticism and declining vaccination coverage, measles – which has claimed millions of lives throughout history – is making a comeback.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her.
The words above are taken from a public letter from 1988 in which author Roald Dahl describes how his then seven-year-old daughter Olivia died from complications of measles 26 years earlier, on November 17, 1962.
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