The pustules sounds much more like chickenpox than measles to me. I have indeed heard of chickenpox leaving scars when they are scratched too much.
Also chickenpox is more likely to occur more than once in your life. That is not common with measles though.
As for chickenpox, most of the world agrees that it is such a mild illness that vaccination is unnecessary. I believe that only 3 countries even have the chickenpox vaccine on the childhood schedule -- USA, Canada and Australia.
And most countries realized that if chickenpox was stopped, it would result in much more Shingles among the adults and elderly. Indeed this has been shown to be true in the few countries that vaccinate for chickenpox.
RE: How the Measles Vaccination Program has Destroyed Herd Immunity
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How the Measles Vaccination Program has Destroyed Herd Immunity
Never had chickenpox or mumps. No one in my family did. I really can only hypothesize how I was scarred, since I have no memory of it. I was too young. Perhaps describing it as a 'pustule' was incorrect. As to there being no scarring from measles, there is. It is just more common in chickenpox. A simple internet search on your part would find proof of that quite easily. I verified it with one hit. I had a bad case, where scaring does occur. I am surprised that you got all the diseases you did, since you are younger than me, and here in Quebec, at least, we were doing the measles, TB, etc... vaccines by the time I entered elementary school. Anyway, good luck with it. Signing off the conversation now.
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