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US Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He traveled to the Western Texas on Sunday, after another unintended child of school -age died of measles -related diseases.
On the eve of the “Make American Health Health” tour in the southwest of the United States, Kennedy said in a post on social networks that he was in the Gaines district in order to comfort the families who had to bury two young children who died. Seminole, Texas, the epicenter is an epidemic of measles that began at the end of January and continues to swell, with almost 500 cases in the country alone.
He said he also cooperated with Texas health officers to “control the measles epidemic”.
The child, who did not have a fundamental health condition, died on Thursday “from” what the Child’s doctors described as a pulmonary failure of measles, “said Sunday at the Texas Department of Health Services. Aaron Davis, a spokesman for the Health System of UMC Lubbock in Texas, said the child “received the treatment of measles complications while hospitalized.”
This is the third known death associated with measles related to this epidemic. One was the second child at the school age in Texas and the other an adult in Novi Mexico. No one is vaccinated.
As the disinformation of vaccines is still expanding, the virologist and pediatrician divide the importance of obtaining a vaccine to prevent the spread of harmful diseases such as Polio and measles.
Kennedy, a vaccine advocate before he succeeded in the role of State Secretary in the country earlier this year, resisted encouraging broad vaccinations because the outbreak of measles worsened under his watch.
“The most effective way to prevent the widening of measles is the MMR vaccine,” Kennedy said in a long statement posted on social media. Descriptions, mumps and vaccines of rubella are safely used for over 60 years and 97 percent are effective against measles after two doses.
The teams from US centers for the control and prevention of the disease “are again arranged,” said Kennedy, although the public health agency in the country has never been transmitted during the growing crisis. Neither the CDC, nor the state health department included death in their measles reports published on Friday, but added it to their point on Sunday.
Throughout the country, there are now more than a double number of cases of measles he saw in all 2024.
It is believed that more than two months of western Texas outbreak has expanded to new Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas, with almost 570 people. The World Health Organization has also reported cases related to Texas in Mexico.
The number of cases in Texas hit 81 between March 28 and April 4, and 16 more people were hospitalized.
‘Everyone should be vaccinated’
American Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiane, a liver doctor whose voice helped confirm Cinch Kennedy, called on a stronger message of health officers in a post on social media on Sunday.
“Everyone should be vaccinated! There is no treatment for measles. There is no benefit from measles,” he wrote. “Top health officers should say so unambiguously b/4 the second child is dying.”
The CDC spokesman noticed the efficiency of the measles vaccine on Sunday, but stopped inviting people to get it.
Starting from long -term public health messages about vaccination, the spokesman called the decision “personal” and said that people should talk to their doctor and “they should be informed about potential risks and benefits associated with vaccines.”
Disinformation on how to prevent and treat measles interfere with a strong public health response, including the claims of Vitamin and pushed by supporters of Kennedy and Holistic Medicine despite the warnings of doctors that they should be given according to a doctor’s commands and that it can be too dangerous.
‘Unnecessary death’
Doctors at the Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, where the first death of measles occurred, say they treated less than 10 children due to liver problems in vitamin A toxicity, which they discovered when launching routine laboratory tests on underpassed children who have measles. Dr. Lara Johnson, Chief Medical Director, said patients reported that they use Vitamin A to treat and prevent viruses.
Dr. Peter Marks, a former chief of vaccines with the American Food and Medication Administration, said that he was responsible for death at Kennedy and his staff. Marks was forced from the FDA after disagreements with Kennedy for the safety of the vaccine.
“This is a model of absolute unnecessary death,” Marks Associated Press said in an interview on Sunday. “These children should vaccinate – so you prevent people from dying from measles.”
Canada officially eliminated measles in 1998, but the recent epidemic of a highly contagious virus in places such as southwestern Ontario public health officers invite people to vaccinate.
Marks also said he recently warned US senators that more deaths would happen if the administration does not set a more aggressive response to the epidemic. Kennedy was called to witness before the Senate Health Committee on Thursday.
Experts and local health officers expect an epidemic to last a few more months, if not one year. In Western Texas, the vast majority of cases are in unvaccinated people and children under the age of 17.
With several countries facing the epidemic of diseases that can be prevented by vaccine, reducing a childhood vaccination rate throughout the country-not care that measles can now cost their status as an elimination of the disease.
Eyes are a respiratory virus that can survive in the air for up to two hours. Up to nine in 10 people who are sensitive will receive a virus if exposed, according to the CDC. The first shot is recommended for children aged 12 to 15 months and the second for those aged four to six years.
