MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An infant in southwestern Wisconsin has died after contracting measles, the state’s first death from the disease in 36 years, state officials announced Thursday.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services did not specify where the death happened or provide any additional details to protect the privacy of the family.
The coroner listed the cause of death as measles, state health officials said.
“My heart is broken for the family,” said Kirsten Johnson, secretary of the state health department. “Any death of a child is a tragedy and even more so when it is related to a vaccine-preventable disease.”
The U.S. stopped the domestic spread of measles in 2000 by maintaining high vaccination rates, but they have fallen in recent years to below the 95% coverage needed to prevent outbreaks of the viral disease.
Predictable.
In the USA, Babies get their MMR vaccine at 12-15 months of age, and second dose at 4-6. so it’s possible the parents of this child are pro vaccines but were exposed to someone in the public.
As of Thursday, Wisconsin reported 431 cases of measles, all but three in unvaccinated people. Nine people had been hospitalized.
Seems likely the infant was unvaccinated, which would also explain the lack of quotes from the parents on the death
Most parents would be advocating for ways to prevent whatever killed their child. The exception is anti-vax parents grappeling with find an excuse why their child died, without admitting the fact it was their fault
Yeah, the parents may not be antivaxxers, but antivaxxers definitely killed this child.
This spawncamping is getting out of control
It’s ok. The administration will be all over this. I’m certain.
3rd confirmed American measles death this week and I stress confirmed, the CDC is nowhere near having an accounting of, let alone a handle on all the outbreaks and casualties.
A person with measles on average infects 9 to 10 people.
As of August 20, 2026, the CDC had confirmed 2,777 measles cases for the year, spread across 47 jurisdictions, already surpassing the full-year 2025 total and marking the highest annual case count since 1991.
“A person with measles can infect 9 out of 10 people around them if they are not protected.”
Go get your fucking shot.
You get the shot at a vaby, and again as a toddler. I suspect no one on here is at the age where they’d be getting it
Your message is not persuasive.
If you just want to lash out, there are other places for that. If you’d like to inform and persuade, impotent aggression will have the opposite effect.
I’ll be the voice of reason.
Did your mom tell you not to spit on people? Or cover your mouth when you coughed or sneezed? Then wash your hands?
I know she did. She raised you right.
Here’s the deal. Vaccines are like covering your mouth when sneezing or washing your hands after going to the bathroom
Sure, hand washing and a few vaccines are a bit inconvenient, but maybe you know why Mom told you that? She saw people die. I also have seen people die of vaccine preventable disease.
Who are you talking to?
Are you trying to follow my advice? Because you sound like a pedantic child.
Which, as I just explained to the other pedamtic child above, is the opposite of how PSAs work.
Alright, my turn to try
Hey little buddy, you seem confused
It’s okay to be confused sometimes. Vaccines are confusing, and there is a lot of bad information out there
The important part is vaccines save lives. If everyone who can gets vaccinated, people won’t be dying of preventable diseases like measels. Doesn’t that sound great?
Not everyone can get vaccinated though, and that’s okay. Some people have immune systems that can’t handle it. Some others can’t be vaccinated due to a mental deficiency known as “being fucking stupid”. They have an inability to understand vaccination until they see people around them die of preventable diseases. It’s rather tragic
As long as you don’t have either of those conditions, you should make sure to get vaccinated. Alright champ?
Lol, good shot, fella. You keep on talking to your buddy nobody else can see. He appreciates ya, lil’ guy!
Actually laughed at yours though, lol, good stuff.
A day of course.
no need to say where it happens, it obviously happens in one of the red counties, its not like not reporitng gives them the “illusion” that it happens in "hellhole blue areas.
“Any death of a child is a tragedy and even more so when it is related to a vaccine-preventable disease.”
So that’s RFK Jr.'s plan for not vaccinating children: if they survive, they won’t have autism. If they die, they won’t have autism either. Genius!
If they survive, they won’t get diagnosed with autism.
That’s the whole point of creating mistrust against healthcare practitioners
Make America Hazardous Again
