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Texas children poisoned after RFK Jr touts vitamin A as measles treatment (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Summary

Texas hospitals are treating children with vitamin A poisoning linked to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promotion of the supplement as a measles treatment.

At Covenant Children’s hospital in Lubbock, patients with measles showed abnormal liver function due to excessive vitamin A intake.

Kennedy, the U.S. health secretary, claimed vitamin A dramatically reduces measles mortality. Experts warn his messaging confuses parents and downplays the proven protection of the MMR vaccine.

The U.S. faces its worst measles outbreak in decades, with nearly 500 cases across 21 states and two confirmed deaths.

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Sure sure, but should parent be allowed to forego low-risk, high-efficacy medical advice to the long term detriment of their child's and other children's health? Children, who are unable to legally advocate for themselves...

[–] sfu@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If I was a parent, I would not want someone else forcing my child to take a drug that I believed was going to harm them. Only a bad parent would be okay with that.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

If you were a good parent, you'd read up on what the risks were for vaccinations vs catching the disease and realize that even the worst performing vaccines are 300+ times less dangerous than an infection, instead of relying on Jenny McCarthy's fucking Facebook posts as a source of medical information.