RFK Jr.'s focus on vitamin A for measles worries health experts

[ShazzieB]

39. Carrots were the topic of that reply.

I never said vitamins or vegetables aren't good for people. I just don't think they are a magic cure for anything (except in certain extreme cases like scurvy or pellagra that have been proven to be caused by a severe vitamin deficiency).

I know it's fashionable in some circles to be distrustful of the medical establishment, but I know too much about science to dismiss the amazing strides medicine has made in my lifetime. Including, but not limited to, vaccines for diseases like flu, polio, and measles.

Btw, the definition of disease is "an impairment of the normal state of the living animal or plant body or one of its parts that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions, is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms, and is a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate), to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses), to inherent defects of the organism (as genetic anomalies), or to combinations of these factors : sickness, illness" (Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disease#medicalDictionary)

Measles is very definitely a disease, an infectious disease, caused by a virus; its cause, symptoms, signs, etc. are very well-known. It's often pretty mild but is known to lead to serious, even life-threatening complications in some cases. Taking one's chances with it (or any other infectious disease) seems kind of silly to me when there's a safe and widely available vaccine.

I didn't have a choice when it came to measles, because the measles vaccine did not exist when I was a child. Luckily for me, when I caught measles at the age of 7, I had a mild case. Not everyone is that lucky.