Yes, that is the reported rate for the US. The reported rate for the UK is 1 in 5000. The UK have done quite a lot of work on reporting of measles diagnosis, and have found that the accuracy of diagnosis varies from 1% to 35%. The only accurate data for quoting case fatality rate is from blood serum tests, and the Americans do not do that - so that reported rate is totally meaningless.
Then, once you have a reported rate, you need to know the vaccination status of the population. After all, you cannot blame an outbreak on unvaccinated people if vaccinated ones are getting the disease too. As I mentioned above, outbreaks occur in 100% vaccinated populations. Vaccines simply do not work as they are supposed to.
One of my children recently contracted whooping cough, from a fully vaccinated fellow pupil. As older children and adults do not exhibit a whoop, by the time we realised what it was the child had ceased to be contagious - but the siblings had also contracted it. Their parents, one unvaccinated one vaccinated, didn't.
Moby T, it is rather unfair to blame parents for their vaccination status. It was hardly within their control.
All I would ask is that the pro-vaccination lobby show some respect for the anti. The scorn and denigration heaped upon us even in these forums is not conducive to persuading those of us who have spent many days thoroughly researching and trying to interpret the statistics available that the fruits of that research are wrong. The information is all out there, but a lot of it is not available on the internet except through anti-vaccination groups so you have to go to source documents in medical libraries to confirm their information.
It is unfortunate that none of the statistics on why children are unvaccinated include the reason of "elder sibling had serious adverse reaction to vaccine" as a cause.
