A team of American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has arrived in Texas this week to help in response to the growing measles outbreak, and US Secretary of Health and Humanitarian Services Robert F. took over. Kennedy Junior to speak to “front line doctors, know what works on the ground” and get to know Therapeutics “ignored” by the agency.
There is a very effective vaccine that prevents measles, but there is no specific antiviral for its treatment. Kennedy has already pushed the use of vitamin A, and in an interview with Fox News this week, an unconventional treatment system supported including steroids, antibiotic liver oil and cod oil, which is rich in vitamin A.
In the interview, which was fully published on Fox Nation, Kennedy praised West Texas doctors who said he was using this treatment for their patients and witnessed “almost a miracle and immediate recovery.” He said that these doctors “treated most patients” in the outbreak of the current disease, which has now reached 159 cases of reported.
One of Kennedy’s doctors seems to take the sermon from the troubled history. It was disciplined by the Texas Medical Council in 2003 due to “the extraordinary use of risk -full drugs.”
Kennedy said that HHS will conduct a clinical trial on the steroid baconide, antibiotics treatments and treat cod liver oil. “We recommend local doctors that they consider vitamin A and their protocols. He also suggested that vitamin A may act as a” preventive treatment “, although doctors say that it does not prevent measles.
However, Kennedy says that measles vaccination, which can prevent most cases, is a personal choice.
“At this stage, we recommend people in these people [undervaccinated] Societies get vaccines. “We understand that many of them will not do that, and we will try to ensure that the best therapeutic interventions that we can provide or recommend to them,” Kennedy said in an interview with Fox.
The doctor was disciplined on treatments
One of the doctors praised by Kennedy, Dr. Richard Bartlett, has a history of using unconventional treatments.
Bartlett has faced disciplinary measures from the Texas Medical Council for more than two decades to describe “extraordinary” of antibiotics and stimulants in five patients, including two children. None of the patients had measles. They came with a variety of complaints including diabetes, back and neck pain, sinus pressure, inflamed ginning and other cold symptoms, obesity and irreplaceable hunger, according to the investigation of the Medical Council.
After reviewing the medical records of the patients, the Board of Directors found that Bartlett made a mistake in diagnosing their symptoms and mismanagement of their care, and asking unnecessary tests and treatments.
In 2003, Bartlett Board of Directors was martyred for inappropriate use using drugs such as IV powerful antibiotics and “multiple doses” of long -acting steroids “without any documents in the risk weight records in exchange for the benefits of this care.”
Bartlett did not respond to the CNN request for the disciplinary procedure of the medical council, or on the basis of its use of antibiotics and antibiotics to treat measles in West Texas.
The final arrangement of the council stated that “the defendant confirms that he treated patients appropriately, without any negative results, taking into account that he was providing care for a relatively deprived area with limited resources and medical support.”
Bartlett was cleared to return to practice without supervision in 2005 after adhering to the council’s requests, such as completing additional medical education and choosing another doctor by the Medical Council for at least a year. He also indicated that he would adjust his practice accordingly.
During the epidemic, Bartlett said that he treated Covid-19 patients with what he called his silver bullet: an experimental combination of the baconide, which is steroid; Anti -antibiotic. And aspirin. Bartlet often talked about podcast treatment and in interviews, including some widely on social media. An independent group to verify facts found that his allegations about treatment were not supported by scientific evidence.
Both measles and covid are caused by viruses. Antibiotics, which kill bacteria, are powerless against viral infections. Medical experts say antibiotics may be useful at times if the viral infection causes a secondary bacterial infection, such as otitis or pneumonia. But it is not suitable or useful in every case.
Doping has been tried in people with measles who develop very rare complications that lead to swelling of the brain, but their use in more moderate cases may be harmful because they inhibit the body’s immune response only when the virus is needed.
“Not really distinguished” virus
There is no specific treatment for the group. In severe cases, doctors may provide treatments such as additional oxygen and fluid to help patients pass their worst disease.
Dr. Lara Johnson, chief medical official in the covenant, said that Lubuk Hospital, Texas, treated more than 20 patients and that hospital doctors followed the recommended treatment protocol.
CDC recommends two doses of vitamin A, who is run by the doctor in severe measles, such as people who are transferred to the hospital. Infectious disease experts also recommend vitamin A in these cases, but they notice that vitamins are very useful in poor countries where children are exposed to malnutrition significantly.
HHS Secretary said that people in West Texas who fell ill, including a school -aged child, died last week, may have malnutrition.
“It is very difficult … to kill measles a healthy person,” Kennedy said.
However, the State Health Ministry stated that the child who died has no basic conditions, and that local doctors do not agree to the evaluation of the Secretary of the population.
“Our children feed very well. [That’s] “Well, my child is well feeding, so they will not get this.”
“Whether you have basic medical problems or in good health, measles may be harmful. It is the type of virus that does not really distinguish.”
In an Fox interview, Kennedy claimed that “studies appear [vitamin A] It is good for preventive therapy, “but medical experts say it is useless to prevent measles. High doses can be toxic.
“There is no evidence that vitamin A has any preventive benefits,” said Dr. Peter Hotz, co -director of the Tax Development Center at Texas Children’s Hospital. “Anxiety is that it is weapons by the health and wellness industry.”
The only way to prevent measles is to get a measles-lubila vaccine (MMR), according to experts.
Dr. William Moss, a pediatrician and infectious disease expert at Medical College Jones Hopkins, said Kennedy talks about treating measles or anyone with measles, and treating people with measles that can be prevented by vaccines.
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Kennedy is a soft measles vaccine amid public health experts.
Two doses of the vaccine are 97 % effective in preventing measles. Veilion from the long -term shot as well. When the vaccine is used by a sufficient number of people within society, measles have no place to publish it. It can be eliminated.
Experts say Kennedy’s focus on treatments has ignited the message.
In a post on the X, Al -Admiral, Dr. Brett Girwir, thanked a pediatrician and former assistant secretary during the Trump administration, Kennedy for “emphasizing the decisive importance”. “But please do not rely on #Vitamina to save your child in the United States – help in Africa where there is a shortage – not here. I have been treated and burying children with measles.”
In Kennedy’s interview on Fox, the HHS secretary was also keen to talk about vaccine injuries and risk.
Kennedy said: “In the past, Kennedy has not done a good job in determining the risk of vaccines,” Kennedy said. “We will do that now so that people can make a real enlightened option about what is better for them, for their families and societies.”
Experts said that hearing this from the best public health official was sad.
“He did not talk about the effectiveness and integrity of the MMR vaccines, then it was moved in vitamin A and talking about how sewage improvements that reduce measles rates in the United States, and all the other kind of nonsense, and you do not do this type of things in the middle of the epidemic.” “It was really frustrated seeing it.”
Others chanted this feeling.
Moss said: “If someone on the margin is a kind of calling this, I think it will be less surprising, but that the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, who is really responsible for the public’s health to distribute this wrong treatment system for category and reduce the role of vaccines and prevent measles.” “It is a mind.”
HHS said it would review a detailed list of CNN questions about Kennedy’s data in the interview published on Fox Nation, but she did not answer answers.
Understanding infectious diseases
Kennedy made other errors in an Fox interview that reduced infectious diseases as well.
Bird flu was suggested that it was a long threat, saying it was “100 years ago”, although H5N1 was identified in 1996 in China. It is not clear whether Kennedy indicates other types of influenza that birds can carry, a natural virus tank.
Kennedy also said that about 70 people were known to have fell ill with bird flu, and “all of them were involved in executions.” In fact, more virus dairy workers have discovered more than the people participating in the execution or inhabitants of birds.
He said that the bird influenza that is originally spread in livestock during the constant disease outbreak, “B3.13,” is not very dangerous for humans “because the people who discovered it were not very sick.
Dr. Michael Ostohm, who directs the Center for Research and Policy of Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota, says that the statement shows that Kennedy does not understand the threat.
“Unfortunately, we do not have the luxury of not being afraid of these viruses,” said Ostrolem. “We have to take them all seriously as a possible reason for the next influenza epidemic.
He added: “As long as it revolves as it is, this gives each of these viruses unlimited shots on the genetic roulette table.” The more people who affect them, in other words, the greater chances of changing them and the more efficient human pathogens.
Kennedy maintained his message that he would deal with chronic diseases and “really get bad for food as soon as possible.” He asked why the United States suffers from the “highest death rate on this planet” from Covid: Was the infection itself or in reality the disease in the population in general?
“Was that really killing them? Or were they so sick that they were commenting on the abyss and just took over and tucked on their nails?” He asked.
“If you are in good health, it is almost impossible to be killed by a contagious disease,” Kennedy said.
Experts say this model is Kennedy’s Etisalat: begins with the nucleus of the truth, but its conclusions on the issue are often incorrect.
Kennedy is right that people with basic health conditions are more likely to develop a disease when they develop a contagious disease. But it is not true that people who are in good health are not envy of viruses.
“Some truth says, right?” Said Carlos del Rio, an expert on infectious diseases and distinguished medical professor at Emory University, said he says wrong things, but there is some truth. “
Measles are an infection that can make healthy children very sick.
“I really want to ask mothers to vaccinate their children,” said Del Rio. This is a very effective strategy. In this country, in 2025, we should not see measles. “
This report contributed to this report.
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