My daughter also had measles. I think the fact that she was vaccinated helped her. It was mild case.
I do trust the older vaccines - the basics - but anything new gives me pause. All medications have side effects and there is a risk/benefit analysis that needs to be done.
It is much better to vaccinate your kid than risk polio. However the anthrax tests they’re thinking about doing on kids now is probably not. Risk/benefit.
I was able to prevent then from getting the HEP-B until they were older and the vaccine could establish a good track record.
I’d probably even hold back on a general cancer vaccine if they ever develop one. (I guess they did with Gardasil.) As my kids’ pediatrician said, it takes ten years in the general population before the real side effects are known and recognized. Just hold back for a few years and watch before jumping on the bandwagon. (He said that this applied to ALL medications, including vaccinations. This was the advice given when I asked him for the Chicken Pox vaccine for my kids right after it came out.)
I actually think that the HIB, Polio, and dpt are the only shots needed. MMR? I think that they were diseases to have, and only the weakest of children sucumbed to complications. We have now changed the endangered group to infants who no longer receive mom’s antibodies, for mom had not had the disease.