I mean, I'm not sure what a fictional show proves. It was certainly treatable in the 1960s and 70s, especially in a country with advanced modern medicine like the United States. But measles still killed a lot of people.

Soooo... your source is the Brady Bunch??????????

Measles is highly, highly, absurdly contagious and you spread the disease for up to four days before symptoms appear.

Therefore, even if its "mostly benign" in healthy individuals, it has a very high potential to infect immunocompromised individuals, so it's a public health concern.

There's no such thing as a benign disease. That's kind of inherent to the definition.

Some diseases are more acute than others, but if we can eliminate even non-acute diseases, why wouldn't we? And to be clear: we know we can eliminate measles because we already did it once.

"Money making corporation"

They're really an outlier there, huh?