Maureen McCormick says cool it with the Brady Bunch anti vaxx memes

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Maureen McCormick, who played the eldest fair-haired daughter on "The Brady Bunch," discovered that a Facebook anti-vaccination group has been using her image from the 1969 episode "Is There a Doctor in the House?" In it, the Brady kids catch measles. 

The group was using the image and referencing the episode in which Marcia says, "If you have to get sick, sure can't beat the measles."

The episode is used as "evidence" that measles really are no big deal, against a backdrop that measles are now at their highest rates in the 21st century. 

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She's upset with becoming a literal social-media poster child for the anti-vax movement because she believes in vaccinations. 

"As a mother, my daughter was vaccinated," she said.

McCormick added that she got measles as a child and it wasn't like the "The Brady Bunch" episode where the older kids were sitting on one of the sick kids' beds playing Monopoly. 

"Having the measles was not a fun thing," she said. "I remember it spread through my family."

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