The other giant story in infectious disease, the measles outbreak, especially in Texas.

You live in Texas, as do I.

One of the things I pointed out, it did a very thorough discussion last week on the many studies

that show that the MMR may be failing on some level.

We may have asymptomatic carriers and not know it.

We certainly see vaccine failure

in places where there are vaccinated involved. My understanding of this outbreak is it is mostly

in an unvaccinated community. So I want to make that clear. But, you know, they use this fear,

this drum beat, and they seem so excited that they finally have a death here in

Texas, and it's on every news station. Whereas, you know, you and I grew up watching the Brady

bunch, and there was a laugh track around the family catching the measles. Is it egregious to have

the media, which clearly has got so much funding from the

pharmaceutical industry, to make people this terrified of an illness that is a benign childhood

illness? Is my number one question? Or is this virus changing to and are we dealing with something

completely different?

Yeah, our media and public health officials, I think, have to be Or is this virus changing to and are we dealing with something completely different?

You know, our media and public health officials, I think, have to be far more responsible in this type of reporting.

And just to level set, our CDC says anybody born before 1957 now, it's assumed that they've had measles.

Right. There's just a broad assumption that that's a case.

I was born in 1962.

I had a single measles vaccine at age two.

And I had another one at age 20 when I entered medical school.

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