JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A one-and-a-half-year-old toddler who had contracted measles collapsed on Saturday evening after experiencing multi-system failure in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood. Paramedics who were called to the scene found him unconscious and began resuscitation efforts. He was evacuated to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital, where intensive resuscitation efforts continued, but the medical teams were ultimately forced to pronounce him dead.
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This is the sixth death from measles since the outbreak began, and the fourth death in the past week alone. Just two days ago, the fifth fatal case was reported: a one-year-old infant who was rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in critical condition after suffering from the disease for three weeks. He was transferred while undergoing prolonged resuscitation, but doctors were unable to save him.
Earlier this week, a one-year-old baby girl who had been hospitalized about two months ago at Hadassah Ein Kerem also passed away from measles. She had been in serious condition, suffering from severe respiratory distress and was connected to an ECMO machine. Medical staff fought for weeks to save her, but ultimately, secondary organ failure led to her death. Over the weekend, another unvaccinated toddler also passed away.
Currently, 21 measles patients are hospitalized in Israel, most of them children under the age of six who were not vaccinated. Seven of them are in intensive care, and one is connected to an ECMO machine. The majority of the patients belong to the charedi community.
The Ministry of Health warns that measles is a highly dangerous viral disease that can lead to severe complications, including pneumonia, meningitis, and even death, particularly among infants, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems.
Measles is transmitted through the air via coughing or sneezing, and infects over 90% of unvaccinated individuals who are exposed to an infected person.
The first symptoms typically appear about two weeks after infection and include high fever, dry cough, runny nose, red eyes, and a characteristic rash that begins on the face and spreads throughout the body.
In Israel, two routine doses of the measles vaccine are administered: The first dose at 12 months of age, the second dose in first grade (around age 6). In areas experiencing outbreaks, the Ministry of Health recommends advancing the second dose to 18 months of age. In addition, infants aged 6 to 12 months may receive the vaccine in cases of exposure to the disease or before traveling to outbreak regions.
Last week, the ministry instructed clinics to allow immediate vaccination of infants aged 6 to 11 months at Maternal and Child Health Clinics (Tipat Chalav) even without an appointment in areas with active outbreaks.
Currently, active measles outbreaks are recorded in the following towns and cities: Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Bnei Brak, Harish, Modi’in Illit and Nof HaGalil.Vaccination centers have been set up in these cities, where vaccines are available without requiring an appointment. Parents can check their children’s vaccination status via the digital vaccination record on the government’s personal website.
In cases of exposure to a measles patient, preventive protection is provided according to age and vaccination status:Active vaccination within 72 hours, or passive immunization (immune globulin) up to 6 days after exposure.Unvaccinated pregnant women, infants, and immunocompromised individuals will receive tailored preventive treatment.
The Ministry of Health continues to emphasize that the measles vaccine is the most effective and safest way to prevent infection and stop the spread of the disease.
Why would anyone not get inoculated against measles, polio etc? Chaval on these innocent victims of the anti-vaccine mob.
Can someone explain how it is that anti vaccination is such a big thing in the ultra-orthodox community? If everything is on Gods hands, and nothing happens without his say so, then should the default be to simply follow histadlus – and in this case the vast vast majority of physicians recommend vaccination to save millions of people from deadly diseases – and have bitachon that if you do that, God will protect your child.
Thanks to Trump-appointed RFK junior for intentionally spreading vax DISINFORMATION. Soon more deaths will occur here. And TYLENOL DOESS NOT cause autism! (Maybe brain worm does)…
But the anti vaccine meshuganas know better :):)
Something isn’t adding up. I did a quick search online. In the 1960s when presumably health care was not advanced as today, the fatality rate from measles was estimated to be approximately 1-2 in 1,000. Nowadays it’s about 1-2 in 10,000 (except in third world countries) So according to these fatality numbers, it would seem as if there are tens of thousands of measles cases in Israel today . Otherwise the death rate is ridiculously high and one has to ask why. Even if it’s one in 1000 dying which would be exceptionally high, why aren’t there thousands and thousands of kids in Israel with measles? Just wondering
ignorance has consequences
where are the gedolim and askanim? have they gone missing?
I’m sorry but I am fully vaccinated and got the measles when it went around a few years ago. I got called by the health department 2 times a day for a month. What a nightmare it was.
Best of my info this child was fully vaccinated
My very nice & friendly Non-Jewish neighbor asked me if it’s true what people say about Jews spreading disease.
My response: It’s complicated but there is some truth to it.
The recent rise in measles deaths is becoming increasingly concerning—it echoes the early COVID period, when fear and rigid hospital protocols sometimes led to worse outcomes. Measles begins as a viral infection, but in some very few patients it can progress to severe complications such as viral pneumonia or ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome), which are the real dangers.
In the recent Texas outbreak, supportive care focused on early intervention—addressing inflammation and maintaining lung function before patients deteriorated. RFK junior and clinicians used nebulized budesonide, a steroid that reduces airway inflammation, and nebulized glutathione, an antioxidant that can help thin mucus and support the lungs’ natural defenses. These treatments aim to keep oxygen levels stable and reduce progression to critical illness.
NO ONE Died. Except for one child and hear what those parents have to say, it wasn’t a result of measles it was a result of neglect intervention.
It’s worth remembering that if doctors simply stopped treating strep throat or bacterial pneumonia, the death toll from these otherwise manageable infections would soar. Early, appropriate treatment saves lives.
Reports suggest that in some places, parents are hesitant to bring children to hospitals, fearing that only limited or delayed interventions are offered once cases become severe. Anyone with connections to Israel should be encouraging timely, appropriate medical treatment at the first signs of complications—because, as with any serious infection, early care makes all the difference.
If you want to talk medical, let’s talk medical — but let’s talk facts, not recycled talking points
Measles provokes a hyper-inflammatory immune reaction with oxidative stress, epithelial barrier breakdown, and a surge of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-6, TNF-α, IFN-γ). Management during the Texas outbreak incorporated multiple modalities aimed at dampening this cascade and preventing secondary complications:
Nebulized budesonide: delivered directly to the bronchioles, suppressed NF-κB–driven cytokine transcription, reduced airway edema, and improved pulmonary compliance in patients with reactive bronchospasm.
Glutathione support: restored depleted intracellular antioxidant reserves, neutralized viral-induced reactive oxygen species, and protected alveolar epithelium from oxidative apoptosis. Alot of research on nebulizing (100 pure, there is a company thats available in the local health food stores) glutathione USP grade, for acute respiratory issues.
Vitamin A supplementation: corrected infection-induced retinol depletion; retinoic acid enhanced epithelial regeneration, supported mucosal IgA responses, and reduced keratopathy and mortality risk.
Vitamin D optimization: modulated adaptive immunity by tempering Th1/Th17 cytokine storms and upregulating antimicrobial peptides such as cathelicidin and β-defensin.
Hydration and electrolyte correction: countered insensible fever losses, preserved cerebral perfusion, and reduced risk of encephalopathy and metabolic derangements.
Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG): selectively deployed in high-risk patients (immunocompromised, infants, or exposed pregnant women), providing passive antibodies that reduced viral replication and lowered the probability of severe complications.
Empiric antimicrobials: initiated where secondary bacterial pneumonia or otitis media was clinically suspected, with coverage typically aimed at Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus.
Supportive respiratory care: from supplemental oxygen to escalation toward mechanical ventilation in cases of severe pneumonitis or impending ARDS.
This layered therapeutic framework directly addressed the immunopathophysiology of measles — oxidative injury, epithelial compromise, and cytokine dysregulation — and in practice resulted in favorable clinical outcomes in the overwhelming majority of pediatric patients during the Texas outbreak.
It is quite clear that when a child progresses to respiratory failure, the issue lies in a failure of timely treatment — a reflection of medical neglect — not in the parents’ decision-making. Blaming families for “lack of vaccination” while ignoring evidence-based supportive measures is not science, it’s scapegoating. If you haven’t read a shred of the research on actual clinical interventions, then repeating slogans is not medicine. It’s time this madness ends.
As I personally know a child who was a normal child and developing properly and in school learning ABC with his peers until his well visit where he received an MMR vaccine and the next morning woke up non verbal. MMR vaccine destroyed his brain. It is now almost ten years later he is severely autistic and never recovered. I will NEVER believe that vacccines don’t (sometimes) cause autism and who knows what other damage. I can’t believe it because I have seen proof otherwise and no one can convince me. No scientist, no doctor, no study.
Rather than blame the new Trump/RFKjr administration, blame the previus senile administration for creating an era of mistrust with their mandaing an ineffective garbage mRNA “vaccine” on children – the least susceptible to C19. The previous CDC director recently conceded in Senate testimony that those mRNA jab caused more harm than benefit in the <30yr subgroup. I warned here that this would backfire onto legacy and proven effective inoculation. Now you see for yourself the Churban caused by the Biden NIH/CDC/FDA has done.
This isn’t typical “measles”. Read the substack from Dr Pierre Kory on the 2 deaths in Texas, how it wasn’t related at all to “measles” but too hospital protocols. Apparently now they are putting patients immediately on ecmo machines which are very damaging and then doing nothing else. Traditional treatment for “measles” is fluids and nebulizer inhalers. Either way vaccines isn’t the answer since as proven by Dr Stefan Lanka in court there never has been scientific evidence of measles (or any other) virus.