Measles

The last time the CDC confirmed an American died from the measles is in 2003; This was the 13 year old transplant patient on immunosuppressive drugs. No other case of measles could be found in the area, so how it was transmitted is a mystery. CDC did not report if it was a wild strain or the vaccine strain. That same year, an elderly man who had traveled to the US from the middle east with the illness, passed away from the infection two weeks later. From the CDC MMWR:
“In 2003, two measles-related deaths were reported. The first was attributed to measles encephalitis in a child aged 13 years who had chronic granulomatous disease, received a bone marrow transplant in October 2002, and died in January 2003. Measles was confirmed by a positive serologic test for measles IgM and isolation of measles virus from a brain biopsy. Despite an intensive search, no additional cases were detected in the surrounding area. The second measles-related death was in an international traveler aged 75 years infected in Israel who had measles pneumonitis and encephalopathy. Measles was confirmed by reverse transciptase-polymerase chain reaction from nasopharyngeal swab and urine.” https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5331a3.htm

A third case that is discussed was reported by the Washington State Health Department. They claimed that a vaccinated woman died of measles in 2015. This death was NOT confirmed by the CDC. The woman was reportedly suffering from several health conditions, and passed, showing no signs of measles. A month after her death, while the Washington State Health Department was attempting to restrict vaccine exemptions in the legislature, they reported that they discovered that the woman had shared a waiting room with someone who had the measles. They performed an autopsy and reported finding the measles virus in her body, and declared that she had died from measles. This would have been a case of measles so mild that she had no symptoms, yet so severe that it killed her, which should have been a case for the medical journals. Washington State has removed the press release on the case from their website. https://web.archive.org/…/2015Ne…/15119WAMeaslesRelatedDeath

To find a CDC confirmed measles death before that, you have to go back to 1992. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00020688.htm

The facts on measles do not justify the fear campaign in the media to sell the public on mandatory vaccination.The exemption removal bills are a solution looking for a problem. This is not about measles! This is about mandating more vaccines like influenza and HPV. Profit over people’s rights.