Marcia is crazy Anti-vaxxers use the measles episode

Maureen McCormick, who played the eldest of blonde girls in "The Brady Bunch," discovered that a Facebook anti-vaccination group was using her image of the 1969 episode "Are There there a doctor at home? " In this document, Brady children catch measles.

The group was using the image and was referring to the episode in which Marcia was saying, "If you have to get sick, you certainly will not be able to conquer measles."

The episode is used as "proof" that measles is not really serious, in a context where measles is now at its highest rate in the 21st century.

Maureen McCormick was furious to learn that her image had been used on Facebook by anti-vaxxers to show that getting measles did not matter. (Photo: Getty Images)

The six children eventually got measles, which television mom Carol Brady, played by Florence Henderson, described as "a slight temperature, lots of points and a big smile."

McCormick: Measles does not look like Brady Bunch

McCormick told NPR when she learned that she was a member of Facebook a few months ago, she was furious.

"I was really concerned about that and wanted to get to the bottom of it because I was never contacted," she said. "I think it 's really wrong when people use people' s images today to promote what they want to promote and that the image they use does not make any sense. is not asked or that they have no idea of ​​their position on the issue. "

She is angry to literally become a poster of the anti-vax movement in social media because she believes in vaccination.

"As a mother, my daughter was vaccinated," she said.

McCormick added that she had caught measles when she was a child and that it did not look like the episode "The Brady Bunch" where older children were sitting on one of the beds of sick children playing Monopoly.

"Having measles was not a fun thing," she said. "I remember that it's prevalent in my family."

A doctor still quotes the 50-year-old show today

The episode is still quoted today by people like Toni Bark, a doctor who testifies against vaccination in court and during public hearings, NPR reported.

"You stayed at home as in the show" Brady Bunch. "You stayed at home," said Bark. "You did not go to the doctor." We never said, "Oh, my God, your child could die, oh, my God, it's a deadly disease." & # 39; C & # 39; has become that.

The doctor and activist Toni Bark speaks at a rally organized in opposition to a bill that would prevent parents from demanding a philosophical exemption allowing them to not use the combined vaccine against measles, mumps and mumps. Rubella, February 8, at the Capitol at Olympia, Wash. (Photo: Ted S. Warren, AP)

The son of the creator of "The Brady Bunch", Sherwood Schwartz, told NPR that his father would not be happy if his program was used to broadcast an anti-vaccination message.

"Dad would be sorry because he believed in vaccination, all his children had been vaccinated," said Lloyd J. Schwartz.