Why do some people think that two states with the greatest MMR vaccination rates are also reporting the most measles cases in 2025?

“For the past three and a half years, I’ve [Vigilant Fox] been in the fight—calling out COVID tyranny, helping Trump win, exposing medical lies, driving RFK Jr. across the HHS finish line, and backing MAHA efforts…” and pushing propaganda about the MMR vaccine.

The usual suspects…

Are Two States With the Greatest MMR Vaccination Rates Also Reporting the Most Measles Cases in 2025?

In this case, The Vigilant Fox, an anonymous anti-vaccine influencer, reposted an article posted by Jon Fleetwood, an “independent research journalist” whose claim to fame is that he has appeared on Alex Jones’ InfoWars.

So what is Jon Fleetwood saying about MMR vaccination rates and the measles outbreaks?

“Texas and New Mexico have had the sharpest increase in measles (MMR) vaccination so far in 2025—they’ve also had the most measles cases.
That raises serious questions about what’s really driving these outbreaks—and whether the mainstream “solution” is making the problem worse.”
Two States With Greatest MMR Vaccination Rate Increase Also Report Most Measles Cases in 2025

He sees a correlation with state level vaccination rates and county level measles outbreaks.

Not only does Gaines County, where the Texas outbreak is centered, have low MMR immunization rates, many cases are in the Mennonite community whose immunization rates are even lower.

Measles outbreaks that are occurring in counties with very low vaccination rates and in communities with even lower vaccination rates.

As in previous outbreaks, clusters of unvaccinated children and adults lead to large outbreaks, even when we have herd immunity levels of protection in the surrounding city or state.

What else is Jon Fleetwood saying?

He “…is exclusively keeping a running list of troubling patterns linking measles infections to recent government-led MMR vaccination campaigns across North America.”

That no one else is doing this isn’t surprising, since it isn’t happening!

After all, the MMR vaccination campaigns begin after the measles outbreaks start.

“The live measles virus in the MMR vaccine is the product of gain-of-function (GOF) laboratory experiments, meaning it is deliberately engineered to enhance its ability to infect more human cells than the wild-type measles virus can and may retain characteristics that enable transmission and replication in the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.”
Two States With Greatest MMR Vaccination Rate Increase Also Report Most Measles Cases in 2025

And the development of the MMR vaccine didn’t involve gain-of-fuction (GOF) laboratory experiments. The MMR vaccine simply contains an attenuated or weakened version of the measles virus that was created to stimulate immunity without us actually having to get sick with measles. The measles virus in the MMR vaccine lost function!

And while he brings up shedding and the idea of unreliable PCR tests to make you think that most cases are coming from folks who are vaccinated, we know that isn’t true.

In the Mexico outbreak, they list the measles virus strain that each person has! None has a vaccine strain.

Not only do we test and know that these folks have the D8 genotype of measles, we know that most have the specific measles virus strain Ontario.CAN/47.24!

Testing that involves a quantitative real time reverse transcription PCR (rRT-PCR) that is very sensitive, especially when used early in the infection.

Tests that show these folks do not have a vaccine strain.

Also remember that most cases are in folks who aren’t vaccinated.

“The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment recently confirmed a fifth case of measles in Colorado this year in a Denver County adult resident with verified measles (MMR) vaccination records.”
Two States With Greatest MMR Vaccination Rate Increase Also Report Most Measles Cases in 2025

The MMR vaccine isn’t perfect though, so as we see more cases, and you have more chances to be exposed to someone with measles, you might get sick even if you are fully vaccinated.

That’s hardly a reason to not get vaccinated though!

This is certainly a good reason to stop listening to these types of anti-vaccine influencers!

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