Unprotected Texans Should Get the Measles Vaccine, Expert Says

Dr. Peter Hotez doesn’t have much patience for anti-vaxxers refusing to take precautions against a potentially deadly measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico because they think it causes autism. Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine…

Dr. Peter Hotez doesn’t have much patience for anti-vaxxers refusing to take precautions against a potentially deadly measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico because they think it causes autism. Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, wrote a book about his personal experience as an “autism dad,” vaccine scientist and pediatrician titled Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism…