Posted on 03/22/2025 3:17:22 PM PDT by 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."
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On X I saw an interview with the medical doctor assigned to investigate the case. He stated vthat the child did not die ofthe measles bit died because she got a secondary infection causing pneumonia and was inadequately treated with correct antibiotics at the hospital.
I have never seen or heard of such a bald statement in a medical review. My guess is that she had a very bad physician treating her and the reviewer and the hospital are after the the treating physician’s license.
Interesting.
Inadequately treated with not the right kind of antibiotics which the reviewer emphasized was not normal standard practice. The reviewer referred to known standard practices that were not followed.
DIE? PERHAPS?
“That’s not at all like my neighborhood as a kid. The discussion would have gone something like this...”
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You just described the childhood parenting style of millions of parents at the time.
It worked. Every child would get whatever was going around and then we’d be fine.
Not like today where it seems nothing ever truly gets resolved... i.e., illnesses.
Bump!
Thanks for your link. I’m posting it as a separate thread.
‘Medical Error’ Led to Death of 6-Year-Old Who Developed Pneumonia After Measles Diagnosis
I had Chicken Pox, but never Measles.
“We don’t need no stinking facts. 🤡”
I heard that yesterday on a podcast. They gave her the wrong treatment. The MSM is desperately trying to build another pandemic because they enjoyed the last one so much.
You need to get your facts straight. You say our parents and grandparents were intelligent enough to get the measles vaccine? I had the measles before there was such a thing as a measles vaccine. We are remembering reality while your are remembering some fantasy.
How old are you? My paternal grandmother was born in 1890 an my maternal grandparents were born in 1907.
Now, we have people spreading propaganda to convince fewer people to get their kids vaccinated against it, and low and behold, measles infections will take place along with the suffering and death the disease caused before. What a surprise...and people like you come along and claim people didn't die from it with no embarrassment or shame.
Whatever you think or claim, none of us providing our experiences ever knew of anyone who died from measles or had a mother who was terrified when we got the measles. More than that, our parents laughed when we got the measles as just one more rite of passage as we grew up. How old are you? Chicken Little screaming about the measles is a bunch of falderal. Sure it can be fatal but so is a lightning strike.
Then I had to remember that my Father-in-law, Rest his soul, was struck by lightning when he was in elementary school while he was standing under the eaves of the building in the 1930's and survived. Through the years I have known people who had a loved one die of a lightning strike, so I can only surmise that a lightning strike is more fatal then the measles.
You survived and now have the privilege of telling people that no one dies from measles. Those who died from measles do not have the opportunity to respond. So much for anecdotal evidence.
The name is actually Thimerosal. I have a base metal allergy, so I learned about that years ago. Murine® and Visine® used to have that preservative in them. Instead of getting the red out, my eyes turned red all over along with the burning.
But, yes that is/was the factor that has been suspected to cause the autism but the tricky part was that it was used in vials or ampules for storage before any medication was ever placed in them. It's a crap shoot to know if it is there or not.
Do you know anyone who died from the measles? I never did. We are talking about statistical risk not one in a million chances. You are trying to sell me a lottery ticket and I am here to tell you that I have never known anyone who won the jackpot.
Same thing, different trade name. They used to sell it in small bottles as an antiseptic for scrapes and cuts. When I was a boy I got a nasty cut on my foot while I was at my grandparent's. Grandpa painted it with mercurochrome. When my dad saw the blue paint and asked what it was he kinda wigged out because of the mercury. We only used methiolate you see. Little did we know back then, methiolate has more mercury in it than mercurochrome. It just doesn't have mercury in the name.
Sounds as if things worked out - great!
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