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> "In some particularly impoverished and malnourished areas, the disease has a fatality rate of 10 percent." You may want to feed them before worrying about gi

• feld 12y ago
  or just maybe the poor don't have good healthcare.
• knowaveragejoe 12y ago
  You would think they'd have died from starvation long before succumbing to measles if that were the case. The flippant attitude of this comment is... irritating, to say the least. It's as if you're unaware of the massive global effort to eradicate hunger. Perhaps you're one of those people who thinks it's "not enough", in which case please show us the multi-million and billion dollar checks you're writing every year for the cause.
  • amalag 12y ago
    They don't have to drop dead from starvation to be weak and more vulnerable to disease complications.
• lkbm 12y ago
  Providing effective healthcare does wonders for lifting people out of poverty. It's not that poor people are sitting around helplessly waiting for food--they're competent, productive people who work in order to be able to provide for themselves. Sick people, and people with sick kids, miss work. Food aid is a major component in fighting poverty, but if you don't also provide clean water, healthcare and education, you're severely limiting the positive impact you can achieve.
• mzs 12y ago
  It costs a total of about three dollars for all rounds of infant immunization in those parts of the world, that's not going to get much food. Also then the people don't get sick and health care costs are lower, so the rest of the money can go farther for things like food and education.