Measles, for those of us old enough to remember, was a nuisance, but not life threatening.
Those of us who do not vaccinate (we’re not ANTI-VAX- we respect your right to vaccinate- just don’t force me to) don’t mind if our kids get the measles in fact wild measles is protective:
Children who are permitted to contract measles naturally are significantly protected against various cancers later in life. In fact, the wild measles virus has oncolytic (anti-cancer) properties.
Journal of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 2009; 330: 213–241
Contracting measles in childhood reduces the risk of developing lymphatic cancer in adulthood.
Leukemia Research, 2206;30(8):917-22
Infection with measles during childhood is cuts the risk OF developing Hodgkin’s disease in half.
British Journal of Cancer 2000; 82(5): 1117-21
Adults are significantly protected against non-breast cancers: genital, prostate, gastrointestinal, skin, lung, ear-nose-throat, and others, if they contracted measles earlier in life.
Medical Hypotheses 1998;51(4):315-20
Lymph cancer is significantly more likely in adults who were not infected with measles, mumps or rubella in childhood.
International Journal of Cancer, 2005;115(4):599-605
Children who are required to be vaccinated against measles have had this anti-cancer protection stripped from them for life. They have been forced to trade a reduced risk of contracting measles for an increased risk of developing cancer later in childhood or as an adult.