You realize that globalresearch.ca is a well known wacko website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky
Well yeah, there can be people who have bad reactions to vaccines. I'm well aware of VAERS, I've made mention of them many times. Again not that many of these people actually end up dying.
Your friend could've just as easily ended up in the hospital for months due to actually getting measles.
The fact is that it's safer for the population to be vaccinated rather than unvaccinated.
You know that using wikipedia as a serious source is a clear appeal to popularity, right? It is edited by anyone with a desire to do so.