Parents of girl who died after measles infection said they wouldn't get MMR vaccine (West Texas family)

Fox News ^ | March 22, 2025 | Melissa Rudy

[CedarDave]

The parents of a young girl who died after contracting measles last month in West Texas are speaking out about their position on the MMR vaccine.

The child, age 6, died on Feb. 26 after being hospitalized in Lubbock, as reported by the Texas Department of State Health Services.

The agency stated it was "the first death from measles in the ongoing outbreak in the South Plains and Panhandle regions" — adding that the child was not vaccinated.

The family lives in Seminole, Texas, in Gaines County, which is where the vast majority of measles cases have occurred in the current outbreak.

On March 15, the child’s parents spoke with Children’s Health Defense about the experience in an interview that aired on "Good Morning, CHD."

When the girl, named Kaylee, first got sick, the parents said they figured it was measles because the illness was "going around" in their community.

Two days after the girl developed a rash, her mother took her to the doctor, who provided a cough remedy and recommended fever-reducing medication.

Although Kaylee’s measles started to go away, she began developing complications, including a fever that continued to rise, her parents told Children’s Health Defense.

At the hospital, in addition to measles, Kaylee was found to have pneumonia in her left lung. She was admitted to the ICU and put on a ventilator.

The child passed away shortly after that.

The couple’s four other children developed measles after their sister’s death — but all recovered after receiving breathing treatments, the parents said.

Even after their daughter’s death, the parents are not proponents of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR vaccine).

"We would absolutely not take the MMR [vaccine]," Kaylee’s mother said. "The measles wasn't that bad. They got over it pretty quickly."

[CedarDave]

Amazing comment by a mother who just lost her child.

For those not aware, Seminole has a quite large Mennonite community that are home schooled and therefore not subject to public school requirements for vaccines. However, it is becoming more apparent that having a plethora of vaccines may be detrimental to a child's immune system and as some believe could cause other issues such as autism.

[CedarDave]

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[meyer]

Something isn’t adding up in the new Measles plandemic. When I was a kid, we all got it at some point in your youth. You got sick for a few days, then got better, then had immunity.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yep. That was the way it was. No big deal. EVERY kid got the measles. No one died.

[Dalberg-Acton]

In the 1950s, before a measles vaccine was widely available, nearly all American children contracted measles by the time they were 15 years old.

Measles was a very common childhood disease in the United States, with an estimated 3 to 4 million infections annually, resulting in hundreds of deaths and tens of thousands of hospitalizations.

[17th Miss Regt]

Hmmm. Wonder what Fauci had his Wuhan folks do to the measles strain?

[HollyB]

She passed away from an unrelated pneumonia. Not even secondary pneumonia.

[shelterguy]

Yes. And coming from a large family usually one kid got it and then the others would follow shortly. And in an unrelated note, a peanut allergy was unheard of back then. Something is changing.

[Leaning Right]

I’m from the first American generation that didn’t experience polio. And that wonderful thing is due to the Salk/Sabin vaccines.

Properly vetted vaccines work. Unfortunately, folks like Dr. Fauci tried to push poorly vetted vaccines on us. And understandably, that caused many folks to question all vaccines.

We were lucky to have Drs. Salk and Sabin. We were unlucky to have Dr. Fauci.

[Stingray51]

Ventilators did not emerge from Covid with a great reputation.

[CedarDave]

In discussing who should be, or get, vaccinated, the local paper said state health officials have concluded that those born before 1957 are very likely to have had the disease and have natural immunity.

[CedarDave]

I grew up outside Boston in the early 1950’s and in the hot summer, running under the lawn sprinkler to cool off was prohibited by Mom as were trips to the amusement park. The disease was at its high point then, and in hindsight, it probably was a good decision by her.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

She passed away from an unrelated pneumonia. Not even secondary pneumonia.

We don't need no stinking facts. 🤡

[HYPOCRACY]

It was a death sentence to be put on a ventilator.

[skr]

Her mistake was to not take her to the doctor immediately.

[Leaning Right]

I grow up in the late 1950s. As far as polio went, the turning point was 1954. That’s when Salk’s vaccine was first made available.

And interestingly enough, as a young man I worked for a few years in the very building where Jonas Salk did his research. Salk was still alive, but he had moved on by then.

(And no, I wasn’t a fancy research scientist or anything like that. I was a university security guard.)

[RckyRaCoCo]

This is the new and improved Fauci/China version.

[lizma2]

And from what I read her docs made some very poor decisions!

Wonder if there will be a malpractice suit down the road.

[lizma2]

And from what I read her docs made some very poor decisions!

Wonder if there will be a malpractice suit down the road.

[higgmeister]

The girl would have been better off in a sweat lodge with the mother doing chest thumping to clear out her lungs.   That would have been better than drowning to death on a hospital ventilator.

At the hospital, in addition to measles, Kaylee was found to have pneumonia in her left lung. She was admitted to the ICU and put on a ventilator.

The child passed away shortly after that.