Robert F Kennedy Jr. spreads lies about measles vaccine
In the spring, a six -year -old girl in Texas became the first child in the United States in a decade to die in measles. Her death has become a symbol in the growing anti -vaccination movement, which mistakenly claims that vaccine is more dangerous than the disease.
US Health Minister Robert F Kennedy Jr. at the same time continues to spread double messages about the vaccine. One second he says that the vaccine syringe protects, in order to claim in the next breath that the measles vaccine has not been tested (which it has) and that the protection is short -lived (not correct).
The girl’s parents have just set up on an interviewto the anti -vaccination organization previously led by Robert F Kennedy Jr. The mourning parents tell how their unvaccinated daughter got a fever, rash, pneumonia and eventually died quickly at the hospital. The grief does not seem to have brought any doubt or regret. It is God’s will, the parents explained in the interview.
So far this year have two unvaccinated childrenwithout underlying diseases, and an unvaccinated adult died of measles in the United States. The US Public Health Authority CDC has reported 1,088 confirmed cases of measles until 30 May. This means that 2025 already has the second highest annual listing since 2000, when the United States declared the measles eliminated in the country. Measles also increases significantly in Europe, where Romania and France Has most illness cases. During the past year, 14 Europeans have died in measles. The experts warn that the vaccine resistance increases the risk of new outbreaks of a deadly disease we should have left behind.
After clean water Vaccinations are what most effective contributes to public health in the world. Vaccine against measles has been around since the 1960s, it is safe and very effective-it provides almost total protection against the deadly disease. The vaccine is estimated to have saved 93.7 million lives around the world. In Sweden, general vaccination against measles was introduced to children in 1971.
The measles virus is the most contagious virus we know of. It spreads via small drops from the nose or mouth through cough, sneezing or breathing. If an infected person enters a room with 10 unvaccinated people (who have not had the disease), 9 out of 10 will become infected. Of these, about one person will need hospital care.
Robert F Kennedy Jr. claims that healthy people do not die from measles. He couldn’t be more wrong. About one of just over a thousand infected children die. Why is it such a dangerous disease? Well, it can lead to pneumonia, which the 6-year-old girl in Texas died.
Measles can too Provide brain inflammation, which can cause brain damage and blindness. In addition, a fairly mild measles infection can cause the virus to remain in the body and be reactivated after five, ten years. It can lead to SSPE, a very unusual brain disease that always leads to death.
The measles virus can also knock out parts of the immune system of, for example, a child by killing memory cells and antibodies. It is called immunological memory loss because the body « forgets » the immunity against infections that it has previously built up protection. It can make the child more susceptible to other diseases. The effect can be for months to several years.
In Sweden is vaccination willing still good, coverage lies a good bit over 90 per centt. Nevertheless, you sometimes also see a strange opposition to well -proven, efficient and secure vaccines. Perhaps, as the state epidemiologist Magnus Gisslén said recently in a DN interview, a sign of the « vaccination paradox ». When an illness has almost disappeared and the memory of it faded, hesitation is at risk of the vaccine to increase.
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