Back to the Past
History of Measles and some facts to educate you.
In 1954, 2 doctors, John F. Enders and Dr. Thomas C. Peebles collected blood samples from students in Boston, Massachusetts who were suffering from a measles outbreak. Both wanted to create a vaccine, so they isolated the virus inside the person’s blood and from there bloomed the vaccine. The earliest know report of the measles virus was in the 9th century when a Persian doctor recorded one of the very first accounts of the deadly disease.
Maurice Hilleman and Colleague developed the Measles Vaccine. Ref: cdc.gov, and BC Centre for disease control, |
Measles is common in many parts of the world, like Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas but it is not as deadly as it was in the older days when the vaccine wasn’t fully developed. Each year approximately 10 million people catch the disease of measles and about 110,000 of those people die from it. In rare cases nowadays it could kill you but the virus has to be very very strong, strong enough to overthrow your immune system.
Ref: cdc.gov |