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Doctors in West Texas—where there is a measles outbreak—are seeing unvaccinated hospitalized patients with signs of vitamin A toxicity.
There is no evidence that it can prevent measles, but overuse of vitamin A can have serious health consequences.
This is a result of misinformation and is what happens when you appoint an anti-vaxxer to lead the national health agency.
@luckytran I realise you know this already, but for those who may not, vit A is vital to the healthy functioning of the body, but can also be toxic in high doses and lead to hypervitaminosis A, which comes with a bewilderingly long list of unpleasant symptoms!
So long, I can't even fit them all into a 500-character post, so look up "hypervitaminosis A" if you wish to learn more. It's one reason that eating too much liver, despite it being nutrient-rich, is a bad idea.
It's very high in vit A.
@ApostateEnglishman @luckytran
Eating polar bear liver ONCE can kill you.
Someone tell RFKJR how tasty it is.
@RealGene @luckytran I didn't know that! Every day is a school day...
The toxicity of their livers still isn't the *main* reason I'd rather not get too close to polar bears. 
@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world@RealGene @luckytran Admitting to not knowing things, and also graciously accepting when you're wrong, are the only ways to be right more often than not.
Indeed, science itself is the formalized, iterative process of correcting errors. 