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Texas Lawmaker not Worried about Measles because of ‘Antibiotics'

posted by mrpg on Thursday February 28 2019, @04:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the Brawndo-Has-What-Plants-Crave dept.

DannyB writes:

Texas lawmaker says he's not worried about measles outbreak because of ‘antibiotics'

Texas state representative Bill Zedler says a resurgence of measles across the U.S. isn't worrying him.

Zedler, R-Arlington, is promoting legislation that would allow Texans to opt out of childhood vaccinations.

“They want to say people are dying of measles. Yeah, in Third World countries they’re dying of measles,” Zedler said, the Texas Observer reports. “Today, with antibiotics and that kind of stuff, they’re not dying in America.”

There is no treatment for measles, a highly contagious virus that can be fatal. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections and can't kill viruses.

It could be funny if it weren't so tragic.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday February 28 2019, @01:47PM (3 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday February 28 2019, @01:47PM (#808100) Homepage Journal

    It's primarily because not all nations immunize everyone and some morons in this nation refuse to be. One decade with everyone in the world immunized and nobody would ever have to take the vaccine to avoid measles again.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @01:53PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @01:53PM (#808103)

    See my response here: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=30329&commentsort=0&mode=threadtos&threshold=-1&highlightthresh=-1&page=1&cid=808100#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]

    Your explanation is ahistorical.

    One decade with everyone in the world immunized and nobody would ever have to take the vaccine to avoid measles again.

    Yes, this would be a better plan and was closer to the original, non-scammy plan. It shouldn't require an entire decade with everyone in the world though. A single year should be enough.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 01 2019, @09:52AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 01 2019, @09:52AM (#808617) Journal

      Your explanation is ahistorical.

      It would be unprecedented to eradicate measles. Unprecedented things are by definition ahistorical.

  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday February 28 2019, @05:15PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 28 2019, @05:15PM (#808195) Journal

    That's probably correct...but are you sure there's no animal that is a carrier? There doesn't appear to be any common animal, but how to you know that, say, tapirs don't carry it.

    So it MIGHT be enough. The only way to find out (that I can think of) is to try. But even if it didn't work, it should eliminate most countries, and probably most continents.

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