born 1950 2 600 000 → 110 000 deaths a year when you were born there was no vaccine and measles killed about two and a half million children a year. now about a hundred thousand.
method WHO measles deaths by year; pre-1980 estimates.
born 1970 2 600 000 → 110 000 deaths a year about 3 million a year when you were born. about 110 000 now.
measles split from rinderpest, a cattle plague, around the sixth century BCE. we eradicated the cattle one. the human one is coming back where vaccination fell.
born 1990 1 100 000 → 110 000 deaths a year about 1 million a year when you were born. about 110 000 now.
measles split from rinderpest, a cattle plague, around the sixth century BCE. we eradicated the cattle one. the human one is coming back where vaccination fell.
born 2010 140 000 → 110 000 deaths a year about 140 000 a year when you were born. about 110 000 now.
measles split from rinderpest, a cattle plague, around the sixth century BCE. we eradicated the cattle one. the human one is coming back where vaccination fell.