A few weeks ago, Kaylee Brantner's seven year old son got a fever.
Days later, he developed a rash.
He got the measles.
Kaylee pulls out her phone and scrolls through some photos.
It just spread and he just had all over.
From his head to his toes, it's.
Cleared like a reddish rash that spreads across his cheeks and over his nose.
This is health reporter Fennet Neerupil.
He recently met Kaylee in Seminole, Texas.
It's an area at the heart of a growing measles outbreak, one that is catching nationwide attention.
We're in an environment where people are becoming more skeptical of vaccines.
We're seeing declines in vaccination rates as people like Kaylee make a choice not to get their children vaccinated for measles.
From her perspective, she fears the vaccines.
She believes that the risks of getting the shots are greater than the risks of getting the disease.
We don't not care about the community.
We just, we're not going to harm our children or the potential to harm our children so that we can save yours.
Kaylee kept her son home from school, isolated her family and ordered her groceries delivered.
After a few days, her son started to feel better.
How did the reality of measles compare to your expectations of what measles was like?
Like, I expected it to be horrible and scary, you know, just like they built up with COVID it was a really smooth ride.