We would absolutely not take the MMR,” the mother of a six-year-old who died from complications stemming from the measles, told an interviewer.

The parents of a Texas child who died from measles called the disease “good for the body” while touting alternative remedies — but an expert tells PEOPLE measles can put children "in grave danger" and emphasizes that deaths are "highly preventable.

We would absolutely not take the MMR,” the mother said after her daughter became the nation's first death from the highly contagious, but preventable, disease in a decade.