An additional early vaccination to reduce measles outbreaks

Measles is not trivial. Wikipedia notes: Complications with measles are relatively common, ranging from relatively mild and less serious diarrhea, to pneumonia and encephalitis (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis), corneal ulceration leading to corneal scarring[6] Complications are usually more severe amongst adults who catch the virus. The fatality rate from measles for otherwise healthy people in developed countries is low: approximately 1 death per thousand cases. In underdeveloped nations with high rates of malnutrition and poor healthcare, fatality rates of 10 percent are common. In immunocompromised patients, the fatality rate is approximately 30 percent. Measles is a significant infectious disease because, while the rate of complications is not high, the disease itself is so infectious that the sheer number of people... [read full story]