Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do.
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissib...
Deke Slayton: Jim, we've got a problem. I got some blood work back from the lab. Charley Duke has the measles. Jim Lovell: [Unconcerned] So we need a new back-up. Deke Slayton: You've all been exposed to it. Jim Lovell: Oh, I've had the measles. Deke...
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.
Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!
autism is more like retina patterns than measles
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.
Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.
Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
