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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: 2) by loonycyborg on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:54AM (1 child)

    by loonycyborg (6905) on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:54AM (#808030)

    To catch up with all knowledge accumulated by our ancestors each person needs a lot of time and work. Most are too lazy or too busy.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Thursday February 28 2019, @05:27PM

    by HiThere (866) on Thursday February 28 2019, @05:27PM (#808203) Journal

    There's "not knowing" and there's "publicly expressing a strong opinion about matters in which you are ignorant". And if you're enacting laws based on that it's even worse.

    FWIW, I don't believe that the neurological damage that some people received from measles could be prevented by anti-biotics, but it seems quite reasonable that fewer people would die if the symptoms (and secondary infections) were properly treated. So it could well be that the arguments on both sides, as explicitly stated in the above thread, are generally accurate. And this wouldn't change my opinion that children should not be allowed into public school without being vaccinated. It *MIGHT* change my opinion that failure to vaccinate should be counted as child abuse.

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