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Originally Posted by GoldHeart
Yeah I remember a while ago, didn't someone catch measles and it still seemed a shock as we don't really hear about it .
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There are 500-1000 confirmed cases of measles in the UK every year and there was a larger outbreak not all that long ago (within the last decade). It just isn't reported very often because there's no real risk of widescale spread in the uk.
There are dozens of active larger outbreaks around the world though, in poorer countries. Not to mention TB... TB kills 1.5 million people every year. Unthinkable in countries like the UK but very real elsewhere.