re: #613 funky chicken

Hmmm. German Measles = Rubella, and is usually mild. The “bad measles” is usually Rubeola. Rubella can cause miscarriages or terrible birth defects, as I recall.

My uncle had rubeola as an 18 month old, and got encephalitis with accompanying 106 degree fevers that they couldn’t break. He is profoundly mentally retarded because of it. Back in 1943 there was no vaccine, so his tragedy wasn’t preventable. I don’t know how a parent could live with him/herself if their child got rubeola and was damaged for life like my uncle when the MMR is available.

Well, back then they called them the Big Red Measles; perhaps they were indeed rubeola rather than rubella.