This is a valuable article, for which I thank the authors. However, a few points need clarification. This article, like so many others, fails to note that NM has had a higher rate of infection than Texas. We should be acting on this basis in NM, rather than talking about how our immunization coverage is higher than in Texas. Second, SSPE CAN occur and it is almost always fatal. However, it occurs in only 4-11/100,000 cases of measles. The line about "immune suppression and amnesia" may confuse people. It would have been better to have said "immune suppression and Immune amnesia" and explained the latter, since few people know what it is.
Richard Skolnik
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This is a valuable article, for which I thank the authors. However, a few points need clarification. This article, like so many others, fails to note that NM has had a higher rate of infection than Texas. We should be acting on this basis in NM, rather than talking about how our immunization coverage is higher than in Texas. Second, SSPE CAN occur and it is almost always fatal. However, it occurs in only 4-11/100,000 cases of measles. The line about "immune suppression and amnesia" may confuse people. It would have been better to have said "immune suppression and Immune amnesia" and explained the latter, since few people know what it is.