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Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia Brady on Brady's group, thinks health professionals should get their measles information in 2019, not sitcom episodes dating back 50 years earlier. McCormick is not happy that the anti-vaxxers evoke a 1969 episode in which the whole Brady family catches measles as proof that the disease is harmless. The children stay at home after school with mild symptoms and Marcia launches: "If you have to get sick, you can not defeat measles." McCormick tells NPR that she had had measles in her childhood and that nothing resembled the episode. "Having measles was not a fun thing," she says. "I remember that it's prevalent in my family."
"As a mother, my daughter has been vaccinated," says McCormick. Lloyd Schwartz, son of fire Brady Bunch Designer Sherwood Schwartz said, "Dad would be sorry because he believed in vaccination, he had vaccinated all his children." The year of the appearance of the episode, six years after the development of the vaccine, there were at least 25,000 cases of measles in the country. Most people recovered completely, but there were 41 deaths and others suffered from complications, including deafness. Before the vaccine, there were about 500 measles deaths per year. Elena Conis, an expert in the history of medicine at the University of California, tells NPR that this episode dates back to a very different era. "In 1969, we controlled less infectious diseases," she says. "Smallpox was still a reality, there were many more cases of polio, and in that context it made sense to think of measles as a lesser threat." (Read more stories about measles.)
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