Measles Outbreak the Worst in 25 Years With Over 1,000 Cases
Don’t forget the fight against the MMR vaccine started around 25 years ago with celebrities latching onto a bogus report about side effects.
The U.S. declared the measles eliminated in 2000.
Do you remember what happened around that time? A bogus report went viral claiming the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism. Celebrities like Jenny McCarthy screamed against the vaccines, influencing people not to vaccinate their children.
We had a measles outbreak in 2019.
Then we had the COVID vaccine forced on us, causing more hesitancy regarding vaccines.
It wasn’t just the hesitancy. The COVID restrictions meant kids couldn’t get their vaccines! Absolute insanity. 22 million children missed their vaccinations.
Then, former President Joe Biden opened the borders, allowing people who likely never had a vaccine to swarm our country.
Well, a CNN tally found over 1,000 measles cases, the worst in 25 years.
Unfortunately, the number might be way more because some cases go unreported:
More than 1,000 measles cases have been reported in the United States in 2025, according to a CNN tally. This is only the second year cases have been this high since the disease was declared eliminated in the US a quarter-century ago, and a large multistate outbreak continues to grow, putting the nation on track for what could be the worst year since 2000.
At least 1,002 cases have been reported this year as of Wednesday, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments compiled by CNN. The vast majority of these cases – more than 800 – are associated with an outbreak centered in West Texas that has expanded to New Mexico, Oklahoma and possibly Kansas. Additional cases are expected to be reported from some of these states Friday.
Vaccinate your children with the proven vaccines! No one should be coming down with the measles in 2025.
Yes, ask your doctor for more information about vaccines. Even ask them to space them out because I admit they give too many at one time, especially on babies.
Just don’t lump these proven vaccines in with the COVID or flu shots. They’re completely different.
A CDC spokesperson told The Texas Tribune that the agency considers the cases in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas as a single outbreak.
The three states have over 750 confirmed cases.
Texas alone has over 700 reported cases since January. Out of those cases, “over 90 patients have been hospitalized, and two school-aged children have died, the first measles deaths in a decade in the country.”
According to CNN, only 4% of hospitalized patients had one MMR vaccine shot.
Except for 2019, the U.S. averaged 180 reported measles cases.
CNN also reported that the CDC “has stopped providing details on the specific number of cases in each state, and its national total does not always capture the latest updates from states” in its weekly measles reports.
Not good. Give us all the data. This isn’t COVID.
Measles is a dangerous virus, especially for young children and adults over 20. Obviously, it is also hazardous for the elderly, diabetics, and those with weakened immune systems.
It is one of the most contagious viruses. Symptoms usually don’t show up until “eight to 12 days after initial exposure to the virus.”
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“Even ask them to space them out because I admit they give too many at one time, especially on babies.”
Like “measles, mumps, and rubella?”
Maybe I want the sandwich, and not the meal.
Dr, Peter McCullough has produced several podcasts that confront this issue directly. His analysis is medical and epidemiological and should make sense to every listener.
He can be heard at America Outloud. My sense is that no one who is all in on vaccines will be happy with his analysis, and yet he is not anti-vaccine. The culprit could well indeed be the aggregation of multiple vaccines and the early administration of the shots. Something is terribly amiss since the incidence of autism has skyrocketed to 1 in 31 youngsters progressively in the last 50 years. And, he puts the current measles outbreak into perspective; it simply isn’t deserving the hue and cry that people who believe that the science is always settled believe.
Again. Looks like most outbreaks are along the border. Again, The USA used to check for disease and refuse entry. No longer. How many kids are illegal and go to school and spread measles ???? We do no one any favors by making entry free. The democrats must pay for this.
20 million likely unvaccinated illegals all trying to not get caught. Whatever could go wrong?
Vaccines kill people, including MMR vaccines. The public policy question is how many lives saved vs how many lives lost.
Everybody just got measles when I was a kid and death was not a fear, but the news media hadn’t gotten into selling anxiety yet.
The best info I can find with an admittedly short search is that there are no deaths attributable to the MMR vaccine. It is not recommended for immunocompromised individuals, but no deaths are known in that cohort in those who did get the MMR.
Even allowing for some deaths related to the vaccine having escaped being reported, when you consider the number of people vaccinated each year, that puts the odds of death from the MMR at an extremely low percentage, certainly below the 0.2% that this current outbreak has produced.
What you are saying is called selection bias “Everybody just got measles when I was a kid and death was not a fear, ” But measles does kill. About 1 in a 1000 person is mentally maimed with measles encephalitis, and 1 in 10000 dies from sspe, essentially brain rot. Rubella led to severely malformed babies and mumps sterilizes a significant portion of men. Some vaccines have stood the test of time and yes some are less than optimal
Everyone knew rubella maimed fetuses, and everyone knew mumps was serious to adult men, but not to kids, which is why they didn’t care that their kids got it, especially since it actually protected them later.. This in no way squares with a strategy of “give everybody a vax against all of them.”
I’m old enough that none of these diseases had vaccines when I was a kid. If you got measles or mumps, BFD. If you got rubella, you got stashed away from pregnant women until you got over it.
I never had mumps, so I’m a target, right? Well, there’s a test you can take for mumps antibodies, and I have those, so no problem. DW tested positive the same way for measles. Seems to me to be a whole lot less invasive and side-effecty than a national net-zero program.
Run a proper placebo controlled double blind study that doesn’t inject the control group with adjuvants. Do the science that was skipped, and you’ll regain trust.
I do not trust the government to do the science, or tell the truth. Transparency (and an apology for past sins), is the only way for the institutions to regain their credibility.
The problem wasn’t the people blaming shots for autism – they’re the victims.
blue cities have already collected mid term mail in votes from their voters and dems are winning in 98% of the races
Here is what my child pediatrics posted – probably because of me. I said no to the vax for my kids. I said the risk was not worth it for minors. I ask the doctor out of her 300+ patients did they have a complication with covid. She said two. I then ask, if those two had other preexisting conditions, and she said yes.
We believe in the effectiveness of vaccines to prevent serious illness and to save lives. We believe in the safety of our vaccines. We believe that all children and young adults should receive all of the recommended vaccines according to the schedule published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
We believe, based on all available literature, evidence, and current studies, that vaccines do not cause autism or other developmental disabilities. We firmly believe that thimerosal, a preservative that has been in vaccines for decades and remains in some vaccines, does not cause autism or other developmental disabilities.
We believe that vaccinating children and young adults may be the single most important health-promoting intervention we perform as health care providers, and that you can perform as parents/caregivers. The recommended vaccines and their schedule are the results of years and years of scientific study and data gathering on millions of children by thousands of our brightest scientists and physicians.
As medical professionals, we feel very strongly that vaccinating children on schedule with currently available vaccines is the right thing to do for all eligible children and young adults.
Finally, if you choose not to vaccinate your child according to the schedule recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we ask that you please find another health care provider who shares your views. We feel that we cannot in good conscience endorse these practices by participating in them.
You sure do a lot of believing. How are you at proving?
I know people who believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I don’t give their advice much credence.,
The whole statement was taken/adapted from this document:
https://www.immunize.org/wp-content/uploads/catg.d/p2067.pdf
I should have done a better job of formatting. That is what is posted on the doctor’s site.
I recommend reading Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth.
I have a friend that lost a child to vaxs in the 70’s and another one that has a 40 year old daughter that was injured by a vax around that time.
The search engines are not giving truthful answers. Turtles has a lot of answers with studies to back things up as well as lack of studies that don’t back things up.
Out first children’s doctor recommended spacing the vax out. The medical community seems to be against that. I will have to check Turtles, but I think a lot of problems started when they started combining vax like MMR.
BTW, the friend that lost the child. Several years later his wife killed herself over it.
My sincerest condolences.
The sad fact is that our medical authorities do not deserve our trust.
I don’t care what they believe, I don’t believe them.
They spent so many years trying to protect their credibility by attacking critics, and forgot that the needed to spend time deserving that credibility in the first place.
If they want to regain trust, they need to admit their sins, acknowledge the rational doubts that people have, and be clear about what new studies they’ll run to assuage the fears people have. And all those studies should be staffed and run to be transparent, and unbiased.
Wow, I can’t “believe” a professional scientific organization authored such a piece of “faith-based” gaslighting.
I apologize for misunderstanding that this propaganda was your personal, original posting.
“Measles is a dangerous virus”
Thank you for the warning.
Still don’t understand how all of us boomers managed to live through measles.
If its so dangerous to all and sundry.
Never knew anyone to die of measles. Never knew any kid with autism. Never knew any kid with asthma. Never knew any kid with peanut allergy. Those ailments seem to not have existed back in the bad old days.
Remember the Brady Bunch and measles?
What the heck happened to us?
https://x.com/CaryKelly11/status/1909559498999504997?t=iBxzSJ3X0LD9C4REpEOJOw&s=19
What happened to us? The pharmaceutical industry happened to us. That’s what.
The answer is that you didn’t all live through it. You just didn’t know the ones who died. In some cases because they died before you had a chance to know them.
Wrong, Milhouse. Every kid we knew got measles, not a single one died. Zero.
Measles is an overwhelmingly non-fatal disease, and it’s 100% treatable. When kids got measles, the parents who cared for them did not get infected, because they all had natural immunity from prior infection. Some vaccines are justified, others are not. No drug deserves blind faith.
Lots of bad info here. Yes death are rare with measles but they do occur. Look up subacute sclerosing panencephalits and ask yourself if you would risk your child getting this disease. There is NO “treatment” for measles. Most, but not all folk resolve this on their own. I completely agree with “Some vaccines are justified, others are not. No drug deserves blind faith.” MMR meets the criteria for justified, covid does not. It is a crappy vaccine.
Measles swept through my school when I was in fifth grade, and I had it that summer before going into sixth. If one of my schoolmates had passed from it, it would have been obvious.
Measles simply isn’t the boogeyman the media would have you believe. Did people die from it? Yes – but more people die from accidental drownings (for example), and we’re not fed a steady diet of fear about water and water safety, are we?
I’ll give you a hint: accidental drownings are 100% preventable (just like measles supposedly are “thanks to the vaxx”), but… there is no money to be made in water safety PSAs, no bonus/incentive structures for pediatricians to make sure a significant percentage of their clients are compliant, and (most importantly) the pharmaceutical companies haven’t figured out a “vaxx” that will help prevent or lessen the severity of complications from accidental drowning….
Didn’t know a single kid who passed due to measles.
Did know a kid who drowned – my kindergarten classmate, who fell through the ice and didn’t make it. That was nearly 60 years ago, and obviously I haven’t forgotten that.
While I try not to engage our resident pedant, I DID live through the pre-measles vaccine days. EVERYONE got it, NO ONE died, or to my knowledge, got particularly sick. In my case, it was so memorable that I don’t know for certain when I had them. Probably about 1954. My mother, now deceased, could tell me–because I brought them home and the rest of the kids promptly contracted them. She had a house full of (mildly) sick kids.
Yes, you are correct that that children died from measles–more likely WITH measles. People that I didn’t know. What the statistics don’t reflect is that a huge number of cases were never reported. I am quite certain my case and those of my four siblings are in no data base anywhere. It was a “childhood disease”, no big deal.
Yes, pre-1900 there were a lot of “measles deaths”. In most cases, “with measles”. Bad nutrition, bad living conditions, all sorts of co-morbidities. The death rate from measles had been reduced by >98 percent PRIOR to the adoption of a vaccine. Without the vaccine would it have rebounded? We don’t, and can’t know, but it is doubtful.
I am not anti-vaccine. What I do oppose is
1)the absolute liability immunity of vaccine manufacturers
2) short cutting vaccine approval–see point 1)
3) Just because we have a vaccine doesn’t mean it should be mandatory. Whatever happened to “do no harm”?
“In some cases because they died before you had a chance to know them.”
Absolutely.
But the really, really, really, really, really hard question is:
Does continuing to cheat Darwin actually make things better for us?
“Never knew anyone to die of measles. Never knew any kid with autism. Never knew any kid with asthma. Never knew any kid with peanut allergy. Those ailments seem to not have existed back in the bad old days.”
Right, And it’s not because “we” didn’t know them, it’s because you can look at the incidence of these syndromes back then and their incidence today, and you can see them all ballooning. It’s because people are surviving today who would not have back then.
i can remember “measles parties”
moms wud bring their kids over for play dates.. everyone got sick at the same time.
I have, or had, a relative who was institutionalized with brain damage caused by measles incephalitis. Worse than death. It affected about one child in a thousand. Even if the vaccine is not perfect, it is ten to a hundred times safer than measles.
I guess it depends on how you weigh harms.
Would you rather have one brain damaged kid per every thousand, or remove 5 years of life from one kid in every 5?
Forget for a moment that this is a complex system where actually getting any real statistics (including the 1 in a 1000 one) is a model output – ask the moral question, how would you weigh not only the “pros” of a vaccine, but also every single one of the “cons”.
Too much of the pro-vax view is a half-pinion – it only looks at the benefits, but does not stringently look at all the possible costs.
Where did you get that one in a thousand statistic?
Pre-vaccine, there weren’t good numbers on measles cases. In the current (click bait) “outbreak”, serious people think that the actual numbers are probably significantly under reported.
The numerator (0ne) in that statistic is probably pretty accurate, The denominator (thousand) is much more suspect.
You must live in a cave all by yourself.
Says the teenage basement dweller in his mom’s house.
He’s not like you, dumbass.
100% the result of the Democrats Open Borders immigration policies.
Look at where these outbreaks are occurring and overlay the map of where illegsl immigrants where settled by the Democrats that ran senile Biden’s administration for him.
Mary,
You make a very good point about not lumping in traditional, proven vaccines made with attenuated strains with ‘not vaccines’ like Covid Jab or essentially worthless vaccines like flu shot. That said the issue is that the same system, same Physicians, same pharmaceutical companies, same healthcare system, same public health regulators, absolutely did do that. When there same folks elocute to their dismayed and in many cases deliberate lies about efficacy of Covid Jab, the futility of mask mandates, fabricated 6 Ft social distancing among other ideological idiocy used as weapon to shut down small businesses, violate religious freedoms, impede commerce, deny education, divide and harm the Nation….then we can have a good faith effort on all sides to discuss healthcare policies but until then these lying Karens are,for my part, banished. They should be ignored and treated as pariahs until they individually admit their errors, misdeeds and make restitution for the impact.
I’m not sure what ‘declared eliminated’ means in this context. Per these charts located by Steve Hayward at Powerline a few weeks ago, the US has NEVER had 0 cases of measles in the year 2000 or since. It looks like there might have been a few years with no deaths due to measles in that time frame but that appears to have been premature as well.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/the-daily-chart-measly-measles.php
Also, if you peruse the charts, as recently as the mid-1990s we had not just over one thousand but actually over TEN thousand cases in a year on a regular basis. The “worst outbreak in 25 years” appears to be a case of selecting a really convenient time frame to avoid addressing the causes of far more significant outbreaks that occurred long before they could be blamed on vax hesitancy.
Absolutely. It is much easier to make bold claims about ‘the biggest/worst/highest X in history’ when today is the first day of year zero. Propagandists love using selective timelines and highly curated/manipulated data sets and the erasure of history from the public discussion to advance their ideological agenda.
So Mary
What’s your expert opinion about the incidence of Autism skyrocketing in the US?
Is it fluoride in the water?
The complete lack of interest by our authorities to actually discover the environmental causes of Autism (or obesity, or diabetes) is frightening.
The only focus is “what kind of expensive treatments can we come up with for these diseases”.
Follow the money.
its not the governments job to find out
sure we lazily expect them to
but its not really their job
or even put fluoride in the water
You’re kind of right – it may not be the government’s job to find out, but when that same government mandates vaxxes for this, that, and the other thing for schools, for military service, etc, then they have accepted that responsibility to find out.
Obesity and diabetes seem pretty clear. Consume less calories than you burn creating a caloric deficit and you will lose weight. Don’t consume highly processed ‘ready to eat’ foods. Instead eat foods closer in the supply chain to the farm and ranch. Fresher the better. A small.garden can help cut costs. Get daily deliberate exercise as a routine in addition to your lifestyle. No Popeye’s, cut fried foods, no pop tarts,.cheesy poofs and fatty cakes.
IOW, get off the couch, go outside and walk,.run, play basketball, flag football A gym isn’t required to do push ups, calisthenics, stretching, get a Tai Chi video and follow along for balance, do Hindu squats. Go.get a small bag of mini Snickers and have one when you simply must but don’t gorge. Don’t engage in gluttony and sloth,. I suspect that will prevent 95% + of.the cases of obesity and diabetes along with the things that stem from them; cardiac issues,. stress on other organs, orthopedic issues from excess weight on joints and back among others.
High F. Corn Syrup.
you have to remember the state becomes stronger with *more* autism measles ESL etc
Just like when hospitals got PAID $35k (?) for the covid patients
schools have to expand their due paying rosters for special ed ( look ma,,more autism students)
WE need spanish teachers for ESL
and on and on the game goes
the people always get weaker as the government gets stronger
Speaking of sickness:;
THE POPE BEING BLACK
WHEN WILL THEY ADMIT THAT HIS FAMILY OWNED SLAVES!!??
sure he got the nod b/c he is active in attacking djt for immigration ( maybe the pope will hook up ACB)
but the fact that he has (some generations back) poc in his dna will prove BOTH GOOD AND BAD
AS LATINO AND BLACKS WILL CREATE A TENSION FILLED ( BUT UNITED AGAINST WHITES) pr campaign over this
BUT WHEN WILL THEY ADMIT TO HIS FAMILY OWNING SLAVES!!!?!??!
Please. Go back on your meds. Please.
Heh – you’re the poster child for being off meds.
It is so uncool to upvote yourself, even if its your braindead transvestite sock who does it.
Me and my wife was born in the late 50s. Both of us got measles and mumps loke our brothers, sisters, and school mates, but we never had any vaccines. We always ended up at home until it cleared so we could play or go back to school.
We had much less vaccines then our two sons born in the 80s. They had less then our grandkids.
What really has me worried about vaccines is COVID. When COVID hit there was nothing and then on the internet various Doctors for about a week gave a way to eliminate COVID using existing drugs in combination, but in a week the Doctors and this method was all removed from the internet. Usually vaccines take 5 years to produce, test, and perfect so there is only 100 kills before release. The COVID vaccine was done in just over a year with not much info on results and kills. Me and my wife did not get the COVID vaccine and never got COVID.
You have Donald Trump and his idiotic “Operation Warp Speed” to thank for the covid mRNA serum. They deliberately short-circuited most, if not all the FDA safety and efficacy requirements to push out a product that was manifestly unsafe and not effective. But of course, most Trumpers won’t admit that fact that
Mary, you need more and better sources for the measles issue. This is no more helpful than all the Covid crap we endured. Relying on CNN so heavily is simply to repeat the same mistakes we have witnessed from the same source who are committed to solving every health problem with preventative vaccines. Do yourself a favor and listen to this: https://www.americaoutloud.news/why-is-the-media-going-mad-over-measles/
IVE childhood vaccines ALL test positive for glyphosate
According to @zenhoneycutt
, all five childhood vaccines she sent off to be tested came back POSITIVE for glyphosate, with the levels in the MMR vaccine being 25 times higher than the other vaccines.
As a reminder, glyphosate is a toxic chemical that has been shown to cause cancer — how is this legal?
Almost all medical research funding since the early 1980s was controlled by Anthony Fauci, who never allowed any clinical trials looking at the obvious comparison between medical outcomes for vaxxed vs unvaxxed individuals. His clients were the vaccine manufacturers and if there was a death signal or serious harm signal neither that he nor them wanted to know.
RFK’s book on Fauci cites many Fauci-run trials in Africa where if a death signal emerged Fauci would immediately declare the vaccine or other treatment that was under study to have been shown to be so safe and effective that would be unethical to withhold it from the control group, in that way blowing up every clinical trial that did not provide the results he wanted.
Notice that the exact same thing happened with the Covid vaccines. Under the Emergency Use Allowance, the emergency use was supposed to be the clinical trial, following vaccinated and unvaccinated subjects for comparison, but Fauci, deploying his usual trick, declared the mRNA vaccines so “safe and defective,” that it would be unethical to withhold it from the control group.
They actually tried to prevent there from being any control group my mandating that everyone take the shots.
Many didn’t, and CDC/NIAID and the vaccine manufacturers could easily have run a proper trial, but the whole point of Fauci’s shenanigans was to avoid that, so no proper trial was ever run, no direct comparison of outcomes between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, despite millions of both who could easily have been studied.
This was all in violation of the Emergency Use Allowance law, but the vaccine mandates were being used by the Democrats for their political purposes (to justify the mass mail-in voting that they used to steal the 2020 election), so in every jurisdiction that Democrats controlled, there was no concern about breaking laws, and unfortunately at that time that included Biden’s DOJ.
The accusations against Wakefield were orchestrated by the Fauci regime and are not to be trusted, any more than the Fauci orchestrated claim that the Covid virus was of natural origin.
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