Even though parents are concerned about what vaccines contain, avoiding the MMR vaccine and exposing their children to the measles can infect the community in life-altering ways. Parents around the nation have become dangerously misinformed about measles and the facts about measles, as illustrated in political cartoons. Both cartoonist, Bob Englehart and Emily Flake, illustrated the effects that avoiding the vaccine can cause as well as the irony in avoiding the vaccine. The measles outbreak, which started at Disneyland in December, has not slowed and caused many parents, schools, and states to begin talking. Although the talking has ended up becoming more of a debate, the fact that many parents are misinformed of the measles vaccine is causing much of the nation to rise to concern for their own lives. Research shows that many parents learning about the measles vaccine are misinformed on the risks of the getting the vaccine as well as the facts. Emily Flake, a cartoonist for the New Yorker since 2008 and has over a hundred published cartoons in the magazine, illustrates her frustrations with the measles controversy in her recent cartoon, shown above. Flake shows a child at the doctor’s office, with both parents, and a quote underneath the photo stating: “If you connect the measles it spells out ‘My parents are idiots” (Flake). Although the measles on the sick child does not actually spell out that his parents are idiots, Flake is clearly displaying that parents disregarding the measles vaccine are ignorant. According to CBS News and an article written by Jerika Duncan, mothers of the nation are being threatened by voicing their opinions on social networking sites, such as Facebook, but many mothers are trying to get the correct information out to uninformed or misinformed parents. Some mothers believe that if vaccinations are not happening, it puts their loved ones in jeopardy, according to a mother interviewed for CBS news. T