US EditionMeasles quickly spreading in Kansas counties with alarmingly low vaccination
- Starting in late January, a measles outbreak originating in West Texas, primarily affecting unvaccinated children, quickly spread to New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas, with a genetic link confirmed between the Kansas cases and the initial Texas outbreak.
- The outbreak occurred in communities with low vaccination rates, leading to increased reliance on alternative, unproven treatments.
- As of Tuesday, the Texas outbreak encompassed 327 cases across 15 counties, resulting in 40 hospitalizations and one death of an unvaccinated 6-year-old girl with no underlying health conditions; additionally, New Mexico reported 43 cases, two hospitalizations, and one death of an unvaccinated adult who did not seek medical care, while Oklahoma identified nine cases with no hospitalizations or deaths.
- Amidst the outbreak, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Promoted vitamin A, including cod liver oil, as a potential treatment for measles, referencing reports of "almost miraculous and instantaneous recovery" from two West Texas doctors, despite a lack of scientific evidence supporting its preventative effects and warnings from the Council for Responsible Nutrition against high doses.
- Health officials and experts, including Dr. Peter Hotez and Dr. Lara Johnson, expressed concern over the promotion of unproven remedies like high-dose vitamin A, drawing parallels to the misinformation surrounding ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine during the COVID-19 pandemic, while also noting instances of vitamin A toxicity and liver damage in unvaccinated children treated with excessive doses, emphasizing that vaccination remains the only proven method of measles prevention.
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Texas docs blow off RFK Jr's measles cure as kids who take it show 'signs of liver damage'
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been pushing doctors to treat measles-infected children with cod-liver oil despite the fact that medical experts believe that this is an unproven remedy that is not as effective at preventing the illness.The Atlantic's Nicholas Florko rep...
Chugging Cod Liver Oil Actually Making Measles Patients Even Sicker Somehow
Doctors treating measles patients in West Texas now have a new problem to deal with — liver damage in children whose parents listened to our esteemed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and attempted to prevent the measles by giving them cod liver oil. Whoops! In an interview with Fox News earlier this month, Kennedy said he’d heard tell of an “almost miraculous and instantaneous recovery” when measles patients were given c…
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