Misinformation issue: How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old's measles death

In February, a 6-year-old Texan was the first child in the United States to die of measles in two decades. 

Her death might have been a warning to an increasingly vaccine-hesitant country about the consequences of shunning the only guaranteed way to fight the preventable disease.  

Instead, the anti-vaccine movement is broadcasting a different lesson, turning the girl and her family into propaganda, an emotional plank in the misguided argument that vaccines are more dangerous than the illnesses they prevent. 

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