{"id":13135,"date":"2025-03-15T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/keeping-with-kennedys-advice-measles-patients-turn-to-unproven-treatments\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:47:11","slug":"keeping-with-kennedys-advice-measles-patients-turn-to-unproven-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/keeping-with-kennedys-advice-measles-patients-turn-to-unproven-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping With Kennedy\u2019s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on unproven remedies endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and postponing doctor visits until the illness has worsened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hospitals and officials <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=1193400659464206&amp;id=100063828481984&amp;_rd\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sounded an alarm this week<\/a>, issuing a notice explaining which measles symptoms warranted immediate medical attention and stressing the importance of timely treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u201c<\/strong>I\u2019m worried we have kids and parents that are taking all of these other medications and then delaying care,\u201d said Katherine Wells, director of public health in Lubbock, Texas, where many of the sickest children in this outbreak have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some seriously ill children had been given alternative remedies like cod liver oil, she added. \u201cIf they\u2019re so, so sick and have low oxygen levels, they should have been in the hospital a day or two earlier,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The growing outbreak has spread to nearly 260<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>people in Texas. So far, 34 patients have been hospitalized, and one child has died. In neighboring New Mexico counties, the virus has sickened 35 and hospitalized two. Two cases in Oklahoma have also been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/oklahoma.gov\/health\/news---events\/newsroom\/2025\/first-cases-of-measles-in-oklahoma-reported.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">linked to the outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Texas health officials believe the true number of cases is far higher. In all, there have been 301 measles cases in the United States this year, the highest number since 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his first public statements about the outbreak, Mr. Kennedy faced intense backlash for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/26\/us\/texas-measles-outbreak-death.html\" title=\"\">minimizing the situation<\/a>, saying it was \u201cnot unusual\u201d and falsely claiming that many people hospitalized were there \u201cmainly for quarantine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the following weeks, Mr. Kennedy altered his approach, offering a muted recommendation of vaccines for people in West Texas while also promoting unproven treatments like <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/04\/health\/texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy.html\" title=\"\">cod liver oil<\/a>, which has vitamin A, and touting \u201calmost miraculous and instantaneous\u201d recoveries with steroids or antibiotics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There is no such cure for measles, only medications to help manage the symptoms. Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent the infection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While doctors will sometimes administer high doses of vitamin A in a hospital to help manage severe cases of measles, there is no credible evidence that supplements are effective for treating or preventing measles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Experts also noted that antibiotics, which fight bacterial infections, may be used to treat secondary infections but do not stop measles itself, which is a virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Gaines County, Texas, the epicenter of the measles outbreak, alternative medicine has always been popular. Many in the area\u2019s large Mennonite community, where most of the measles cases have been clustered, avoid interacting with the medical system and hold to a long tradition of natural remedies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the last few weeks, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/video\/%e2%80%98its-been-flying-off-the-shelf%e2%80%99-lubbock-pharmacy-sees-more-vitamin-a-and-cod-liver-oil-purchases-amidst-west-texas-measles-outbreak\/10533712\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">drugstores<\/a> in West Texas have struggled to keep bottles of vitamin A pills and cod liver oil supplements on their shelves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And this week, doctors at Seminole Memorial Hospital, which sits at the center of Gaines County, noticed that the number of patients coming in for measles symptoms suddenly dropped. Those who did show up were sicker than patients seen in previous weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even while cases in the community increased, Dr. Leila Myrick, a physician at the hospital, said she performed half the number of measles tests, compared with those the week before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She worried that her patients were instead going less than a mile away from the hospital to a pop-up clinic, where a doctor from a neighboring city had been doling out alternative remedies, like cod liver oil and vitamin C.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The physician, Dr. Ben Edwards, is well known in the area for producing podcasts that often discuss the dangers of vaccines, and for his wellness clinic in Lubbock, which rejects central tenets of medicine, like the idea that germs cause certain diseases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview with Fox News, Mr. Kennedy said he had spoken with Dr. Edwards (whom he mistakenly called Dr. Ed Benjamin) and learned \u201cwhat is working on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an email relayed through an employee, Dr. Edwards confirmed that he had talked to Mr. Kennedy for about 15 minutes in what he described as an \u201cinformation gathering\u201d phone call. Dr. Edwards declined to speak directly with The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the following days, hundreds of people from the Mennonite community lined up at Dr. Edwards\u2019s makeshift clinic, held behind a local health food store, said Tina Siemens, who helped organize the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mrs. Siemens said people seeking treatment for active measles infections and those who hoped to prevent one were in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To get enough supplements for the clinic, Dr. Edwards had enlisted one of his patients, a pilot, to fly to Scottsdale, Ariz., and pick up nearly a thousand bottles of vitamin C supplements and cod liver oil, both as a lemon-flavored drink and unflavored soft gels, said an owner of the supplement company, Patrick Sullivan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHow much do you have in stock, and how quickly could you get it to me?\u201d Mr. Sullivan recalled Dr. Edwards asking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The treatments were free, Mrs. Siemens said. Members of Children\u2019s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit that Mr. Kennedy helped found before becoming health secretary, created a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.givesendgo.com\/txoutbreak\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">donation page<\/a> online that has raised more than $16,000 to help cover the cost of \u201cessential vitamins, supplements and medicines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Measles symptoms often resolve on their own within a few weeks. But in rare cases, the virus can cause pneumonia, making it difficult for patients, especially children, to get oxygen into their lungs. There could also be brain swelling, which can cause lasting problems, like blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities. Both complications can be deadly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During this outbreak, hospitalized children with pneumonia have had to be intubated, Ms. Wells, the Lubbock health director, said. In those circumstances, timely care can mean the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Unproven remedies have for decades made measles outbreaks more deadly, said Patsy Stinchfield, immediate past president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She worked as a nurse practitioner at a hospital in Minnesota during a measles outbreak in 1989 that killed several children. 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