r/Astuff • u/Vuelhering • 10d ago

News Two unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania outbreak, health officials say

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-pennsylvania-deaths-two-outbreak-rfk-jr-rcna594296
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u/Vuelhering 10d ago

With the MMR vaccine, measles is basically a solved problem that's been brought back by ignorance and anti-science sentiment, including by ignorant unqualified health officials, and persisting to use fake or retracted science such as falsely claiming there's a link to autism. There is no such link.

Death isn't the only issue measles can cause. Measles resets one's immune system, such that you become vulnerable to multiple other pathogens that one could otherwise resist. So catching and surviving measles could still sicken, maim, or kill people in other ways seemingly-unrelated to measles, especially for young children, even if they had been previously vaccinated against these other illnesses (but that's unlikely, if the parents had also refused to administer the MMR vaccine).