But Kaylee’s health deteriorated. Her parents took her to Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock when she started having trouble breathing after being sick and exhausted for a few days.
A few days after being intubated, she passed away, perhaps from pneumonia, a common side effect of measles. Her passing is the first measles-related mortality in the US in a decade,
The Associated Press reports. Her siblings also got measles after the girl’s untimely death. In the interview, the father of the deceased daughter said that measles
“Are good for the body” and even implied that they provide cancer prevention, a notion that medical professionals categorically deny.
Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Jay K. Varma told PEOPLE that none of it was accurate. “Measles has no positive effects on human health.
