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2024-10-12 16:45:51 UTC - HELPFUL
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Digitally altered graph. Before the measles vaccine the U.S. saw 400,000–500,000 reported measles cases annually, 400–500 deaths per year, along with around 48,000 hospitalizations. That dropped to <100 annually after vaccines. Vaccines eliminated meales in 2000 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmcp1905181 https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html#:~:text=Measles%20was%20declared%20eliminated%20
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