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The most severe direct complications from measles are pneumonia, encephalitis, and blindness. One to three out of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from respiratory and neurological complications. also... Suppression of the immune system by measles lasts about two years and has been epidemiologically implicated in an increase in childhood mortality from other infectious diseases during this period. | ||