children s health issues
Measles
Prognosis for Measles
In healthy, well-nourished children, measles is usually not serious. However, in the United States, about 1 to 2 of 1,000 children infected with measles die. This number of children is much higher in medically underserved countries. Undernutrition and Worldwide, approximately 134,000 people die each year of measles, typically from complications of pneumonia or encephalitis. 