This is what not vaccinating your child with M.M.R. will likely cause infection and a measles outbreak.

Immunologists and medical doctor Michael Mina have conducted research that reveals that measles destroys immune cells. People recovering from measles lose much of their immune memory. The protection they had acquired from previous infections of vaccines to other childhood illnesses is lost.

Dr. Mina compared the damage done to the immune system to the damage done by HIV:

“If you took all of the immunological memory that HIV tears down when it’s untreated for 5 to 10 years, that’s what you see after one measles infection,” Mina said.

Journalist Zeynep Tufekci states that

Some Americans live deep in echo chambers where most of what they hear about vaccines are lies and disdain. It won’t be possible to reverse all this quickly. Perhaps the best we can do is inform parents skeptical of vaccines what they’re risking, before it’s too late.

In Seminole, TX, every day, Dr. Wendell Parkey is confronted with vaccine skeptics who have chosen to not vaccinate their children. Seminole is at the center of the largest measles outbreak since 2019. Since the beginning of the year, more than 140 Texas residents, most who live in the surrounding Gaines County, have been diagnosed and 20 hospitalized. A child has died.

Dr. Parkey can detect measles in a patient before the telltale spots appear. Infected children have no affect and sit with a distant stare. As the illness progresses, the child’s eyes grow red and crusted and he will develop fever and a cough. The fever spikes and the rash would spread over his torso and thighs. The virus might migrate into his lungs and cause pneumonia and he might require an oxygen mask to breathe. Measles could invade his brain, cause swelling and convulsions, possibly blindness or deafness.

Once the virus infects someone, there is not treatment to stop it.

The measles virus is highly contagious. Measles spreads through microscopic droplets which can hang in the air for two hours. In order for a community to develop herd immunity, 95 % of the population must be vaccinated to stave off an outbreak. In Gaines County, the largest school district reported that just 82% of kindergartners received the M.M.R. vaccine in 2023. In one of the smaller school districts, less than half of the students got the shots.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., anti-vaxxer spokesman with no medical background, is recommending that the measles virus be treated with Vitamin A, which he believes will reduce mortality.

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