Let's Talk About Measles and MMR Myths

Folks aren't getting vaccinated because they believe these myths about measles and the MMR vaccine.

If you have gotten yourself or your family vaccinated and protected against measles, there is a good chance that you were made to believe one or more of these measles myths we are going to talk about.

Don’t believe the myth that measles was always thought of as being a mild disease. After all, measles was called the harmless killer because a lot of kids died when they got measles!

Anti-vaccine influencers have long targeted measles and the MMR vaccine, especially when there are outbreaks.

Of course, none of these myths are true.

It is all misinformation and propaganda that, if you believe it, leaves you and your family at risk to get measles, a life-threatening disease.

Let's Talk About Measles and MMR Myths

And none of these myths are even new!

They have been recycled for years, even though they have been thoroughly debunked long ago. Most of them even showed up in RFK Jr’s Measles book, as ‘secrets’ the government isn’t telling you!

Myths such as:

• The myth that measles isn’t deadly

• There are benefits to having measles

• The MMR vaccine isn’t safe for six-month-old infants

• Getting a fever or rash after your MMR vaccine means that you have vaccine-induce measles

• SSPE is caused by the MMR vaccine

• Protection from the MMR vaccine wanes over time

• The Myth That Measles Never Left

• Folks didn’t use to worry about measles because it was on the Brady Bunch

• Measles deaths were already down 98%, so we didn’t need a measles vaccine.

• The MMR vaccine is a leaky vaccine

• There are rogue strains of mutating measles that are causing outbreaks

• Natural herd immunity would have protected everyone from measles if we had never vaccinated anyone

• Measles outbreaks are caused by vaccine strains

• The MMR vaccine causes more seizures than measles

• vitamin A can prevent measles

• Measles outbreaks are being caused by refugees and immigrants

• The MMR vaccine is associated with autism

• Charts show the MMR vaccine isn’t necessary

• The CDC has been hiding MMR excipients

• The licensing of the MMR vaccine has been called into question

• The MMR package insert says it isn’t safe

• The CDC pushed a batch of MMR vaccines because they were about to expire

• Vaccination rates aren’t dropping, so we shouldn’t be having measles outbreaks

• Did Gregory Poland say that the measles vaccine has failed?

• The measles outbreak in Samoa was made up

• Was the measles outbreak in New York a hoax?

• Was the Measles Outbreak in Michigan Caused by Vaccine-Strain Measles?

• Shedding and the Texas Measles Outbreak

• How Wrong Can Andy Wakefield Be About Measles Outbreaks?

• Was the Unvaccinated Child Who Died With Measles Given the Wrong Antibiotic?

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

• The Brady Bunch vs. the Lassie Crisis Measles Episode

• Measles deaths aren’t actually caused by measles

• Healthy kids don’t die with measles

Myths that are designed to make you think that vaccines are always dangerous and that it is no big deal to get a vaccine preventable disease, like measles.

Myths that are easily debunked if you do a little research.