“Don't take a shot,” the woman identified as the girl's mother said through an interpreter during an interview with the organization. Children's health defense. The woman added that she has doctors to help, and the illness is “not as bad as they're making it.”
Famous Anti-vaccine groupFounded by current HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who previously chaired the film, and posted a video interview on March 17th, along with the couple who were identified as parents of their deceased children.
“We never take MMR,” the mother said. Because the couple has four other children who survived measles. “Measles wasn't that bad, so I quickly got through it.”
Interviews come because the Texas outbreak became ill Over 300 people Since January, it has exceeded the number of cases reported nationwide last year. Almost all cases so far are among individuals who have not been vaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.
The child was First recorded measles death in the United States in 10 years.
Measles was officially eliminated in 2000 due to a highly effective vaccination program, but vaccinations are in decline, and the 2019 outbreak threatened its status.
Most measles cases in the US are first introduced by unvaccinated individuals exposed during international travel, then spreading the virus again Inadequate community At home.
Outbreaks are the main focus in Texas Large Mennonite Community In Gaines County, where vaccination rates are historically low.
In an interview, the girl's father said that measles is “good for the body” and that it helps boost a person's immune system.
It's an argument that is not supported by science, but was recently repeated by Kennedy in an interview with Fox News.
“And there are many studies showing that if you actually get a wild infection, you're protected later on, which boosts your immune system later in life against cancer, atopic disease, heart disease, and more,” Kennedy said earlier this month.
The current occurrence represents a Important Tests For Kennedy, he had to consider his past for the first time as a longtime critic of the vaccine in the new leadership of federal health facilities.
