# US Measles Cases Hit Twenty Year High **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-measles-cases-hit-twenty-year-high/689610 "2014-05-30T01:28:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-measles-cases-hit-twenty-year-high/689610/101 "2014-06-14T21:31:25Z")
Bear in mind who’s telling the story. It actually explains a lot. _rimshot_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-measles-cases-hit-twenty-year-high/689610/102 "2014-06-15T01:03:13Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > You couldn’t have been considered “brain dead”, since brain dead means, well, dead. You can have other organs functioning, but you can’t wake-up or be revived from brain death. The “ice bath” may have been induced hypothermia, which resulted in an altered state of consciousness, and possibly his heart stopped, and had to be mechanically restarted-- he may have been “dead” for a few seconds, but his family reports the whole period of hypothermia as the time he was dead. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-measles-cases-hit-twenty-year-high/689610/103 "2014-06-15T02:14:59Z")
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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-measles-cases-hit-twenty-year-high/689610/104 "2014-06-15T04:49:14Z")
He’s a caduceus soccer ball!? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-measles-cases-hit-twenty-year-high/689610/105 "2014-06-16T16:20:53Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Nope. I had a fever and was placed into an ice bath, so I think that might have had to do with it. I’m also unsure what is meant by “clinically dead” when my mom tells me this. I was 16 months old, so it’s not as if I remember myself. Perhaps that was as long as I wasn’t breathing (I turned blue.) Perhaps I was just considered brain dead but still on life support. Doctors can make mistakes. > > The story has been consistent throughout my entire remembered life. It’s always been 45 minutes. So I don’t think it’s grown in the telling. In some way or another, I was dead for 45 minutes. No you weren’t. My step-mom had surgery almost a year ago and the doctor knicked a vein and it wasn’t noticed for six minutes. She had a lot of blood loss to her brian. She has been on a breathing tube since and is still bed-ridden and can barely mumble. Your mom is liar. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-measles-cases-hit-twenty-year-high/689610/106 "2014-06-16T16:22:02Z")
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