Parents of unvaccinated 6-year-old killed by measles in Texas speak out. They still are anti-vax

The parents of an unvaccinated kid who died successful the Texas measles outbreak appeared successful a video produced by the anti-vaccine advocacy radical Children’s Health Defense, wherever they continued to impulse others to debar vaccinating their kids.

The young mates are members of the Mennonite assemblage and said their different 4 children had milder cases of measles due to the fact that of untested treatments from Veritas Wellness, a holistic session successful Lubbock, Texas, that’s reported to propulsion treatments specified arsenic cod liver oil, vitamin C and the steroid budesonide, according to Mother Jones.

The session had assistance from an online fundraiser organized by Children’s Health Defense, the radical led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. until helium launched his 2024 statesmanlike campaign. Kennedy is reported to person spoken with Dr. Ben Edwards of Veritas Wellness past week, successful summation to a historiographer from the country and a subordinate of the Mennonite community.

While the interrogation with the parents who mislaid their six-year-old to measles could beryllium seen arsenic an statement successful favour of vaccination, Brian Hooker and Polly Tomney of Children’s Health Defense interpreted the lawsuit arsenic vaccinations being unnecessary arsenic agelong arsenic children person entree to unproven treatments.

The young Mennonite mates spoke partially successful English and partially successful German, with a translator, saying that initially, their kid seemed to person a regular lawsuit of measles, with a rash, fever and mild respiratory issues. But aft a fewer days, her fever remained, and she struggled to breathe.

Taking her to the exigency room, the kid was diagnosed with pneumonia. She was enactment connected a ventilator successful the ICU earlier her passing.

Following the funeral, their different 4 children, aged 2 to seven, besides suffered cases of the illness and were treated by Edwards.

“Dr. Ben came helping us, and helium gave them treatments, oregon similar medicine,” the parent told Children’s Health Defense. “And they had a truly good, quick, recovery.”

Tomney said, “We spent the greeting astatine Dr. Ben Edwards’ clinic, and the parents are each inactive sitting determination saying they would alternatively person this than the MMR vaccination due to the fact that they’ve seen truthful overmuch injury, which we person arsenic well. Do you inactive consciousness the aforesaid mode astir the MMR vaccine versus measles and the due attraction with Dr. Ben Edwards?”

“Absolutely not instrumentality the MMR [vaccine],” she said. “The measles wasn’t that bad. [The different children] got implicit it beauteous quickly. And Dr. Edwards was determination for us.”

But it’s apt that the siblings would person had mild cases careless of the untested treatments arsenic 1 successful 5 unvaccinated children with measles are taken to hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Earlier this month, Kennedy spoke to Fox News, claiming, without evidence, that treating measles with cod liver oil, antibiotics and steroids had “very, precise bully results.”

The mates besides made different claims during the interrogation with Children’s Health Defense that don’t person immoderate technological support. The begetter said via a translator that helium thought that measles boosted the immune strategy and that it protected against aboriginal cases of crab and different diseases. While the measles microorganism is being studied arsenic a imaginable remedy for immoderate types of cancer, probe indicates that it’s much effectual for those who person been vaccinated.

“It was her clip connected Earth,” the translator said of the deceased child. “They judge that she’s amended disconnected wherever she is present versus each the negativity and each the worldly going on. They deliberation she was excessively bully for this earth.”

Hooker and Tomney said successful a 2nd video shared connected Wednesday that they had gotten ahold of the deceased child’s infirmary records, and they claimed that the kid had not died of measles, but instead, due to the fact that the infirmary had not utilized the close treatments, Mother Jones noted.

“Vaccination remains the champion defence against measles infection,” the CDC said successful a connection connected February 27. “Measles does not person a circumstantial antiviral treatment. Supportive care, including vitamin A medication nether the absorption of a physician, whitethorn beryllium appropriate.”