At 5 months, Walter Blum was too young to be vaccinated when he got measles. His mother says the community 'failed us.'
"It's terrifying," his mother, Sara Blum, said."You see it and you're like, OK, that's really high." Then a rash covered him head to toe. "It was all over his face. All over the back of his neck. It was really red and splotchy," said Blum, who lives in California."It was very alarming." The diagnosis: measles.
Of the 2019 cases in the United States, 66 patients , have been hospitalized and 24 have had pneumonia, according to the report. No cases of encephalitis or deaths have been reported in the United States this year. The last measles death in the US occurred in 2015. According to the CDC one or two out of every 1,000 people infected in the United States will die from measles. Before the measles vaccine was developed in 1963 an estimated 2.
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