Floriano Marchetti MD

04/20/2025

None of the diseases we vaccinate against are innocuous. They are all serious diseases that can cause permanent damage and death.

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Every time I hear anti-vaxxers say that the diseases we vaccinate against are "innocuous" I want to scream. Each year in the US more than 40,000 people are diagnosed with an -caused cancer. And every year thousands of these people die. Parents: please vaccinate against HPV!

03/27/2025

03/26/2025

Io mi stavo facendo i fatti miei
Poi, tutto d’un tratto, il 1975 era 50 anni fa.

02/19/2025

https://www.facebook.com/100049680654059/posts/1196308758701801/?

‼️An important reminder that while vitamin A can play a supportive role in treating measles, it is absolutely not a substitute for vaccination. This distinction is critical, as some have dangerously misinterpreted studies about vitamin A's benefits during measles infection. When properly dosed in infected patients, vitamin A treatment can help reduce the severity of complications and improve survival rates - but this only comes into play after someone has already contracted this highly contagious virus.

What makes the MMR vaccine so remarkable is that it prevents infection in the first place, with over 97% effectiveness. Think of it this way - would you rather have protection against getting measles at all, or risk contracting a dangerous disease that could require hospitalization and then hope treatment helps reduce complications? In the United States, about 1 in 5 people who get measles will require hospitalization. Measles can lead to serious complications including pneumonia, encephalitis (brain swelling), and in some cases, death. The math is simple: preventing measles through vaccination is far safer than relying on treatments after infection occurs.

Sources:
https://www.nfid.org/what-you-should-know-about-measles-and-vitamin-a/
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/39/suppl_1/i48/699532
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7076287/

01/04/2025

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I've seen epiglottitis (from Hib) once. Once too many. I've seen a toddler die of meningitis. One too many. I've seen a child die of influenza - again, one too many. I've seen tetanus in a child who was ventilated in intensive care; one too many. I've seen a young woman die of diphtheria - her parents never vaccinated her. This should never have happened. I've never, ever seen anybody permanently injured by a vaccine and I don't know of anyone, doctors or not, who have.

MH. Medical doctor. Father of 4 healthy vaccinated children.