Also called Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), it affects like 1 in 5,000 people who contract measles (vaccinated), but jumps to 1 in 609 in the unvaccinated.
Basically, you get measles and then seem fine, but anywhere from months to 15+ years later, you develop brain inflammation, seizures, spasms, blindness, and coma, and it’s basically 100% fatal. The disease attacks your nerves and brain. There’s no treatment or cure, and it hurts the whole time you’re dying. It can take months or more of excruciating suffering to kill you. It’s similar to rabies, in that you lose all control and are guaranteed a protracted, painful death.
It’s preventable by getting the measles vaccine.
what is it with disease having the worse form waaayyyy later.
I don’t understand how both these things can be true:
it affects like 1 in 5,000 people who contract measles (vaccinated)
It’s preventable by getting the measles vaccine.
jumps to 1 in 609 in the unvaccinated.
I know what odds I’ll take. I’m also assuming a vaccinated person has much lower chances of contracting measles in the first place.
OP misquoted. It’s 1 in 609 unvaxxed infants.
Still better to fucking vaccinate, though.
They can’t. OP should have said that the chances can be mitigated by getting the measles vaccine.
