Medical texts described measles as a benign self-limiting childhood disease, nothing to worry about. But then...(insert scary music) the measles vaccine came out — thus creating the Great Measles Misunderstanding.
Before the advent of the measles vaccine, a dozen or so cases of measles would have been considered, well, too measly to make the headlines. That is because we all got the measles when we were kids. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers anyone born before 1957 to be immune to the measles.
The Great Measles Misunderstanding
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