US Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy, JR. traveled toWest TexasOn Sunday after the second unaccocated child at school age diedfrom measles associated with measles.
Kennedy before the “Make America Health Again” tour, after the southwestern US, said in a social media post that he was in the Gaines region to reassure families who had to bury two little children who died. The seminle isEpicentrum of the outbreak of measlesThis began at the end of January and continues to swell, with almost 500 cases only in Texas.
He said he was also working with Texas Health officials to “control the outbreak of measles”.
The child did not have basic health conditions and died on Thursday “what the child's doctors described as measles of lung failure,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for State Health in Texas on SundayIn a press release. Aaron Davis, a spokesman for the UMC medical system in Lubbock, Texas, said that the child “receives complications of measles during hospitalization”.
This is the third known death associated with measles associated with this focus. One wasAnother school of school agein Texas and the other wasadult in New Mexico. Nor have they been vaccinated.
Kennedy, the advocate of Anti-Vakcina, before joining the role of the main Minister of Health at the beginning of this year, resisted the insistence of extensive vaccination, because the outbreak of measles deteriorated under his watch.
“The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is a vaccine against the MMR,” Kennedy said in a lengthy statement published X. The measles, mumps and rubella vaccines have been used safely for more than 60 years and after two doses 97% are effective against measles.
Teams of the US Center for Control and Prevention of Diseases have been “moved”, Kennedy added, although the National Public Health Agency never passed that it had withdrawn during the growing crisis. Neither the CDC nor the state health departments included death in their measles reports released on Friday, but added it to their number of Sundays.
The US has more than double the number of the USA at a national levelMeasles casesHe saw it in all year 2024.
More than two months,West TexasIt is assumed that the outbreak has expanded to new Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas,Feelings of nearly 570 people. The World Health Organization also reported cases on Texas in Mexico. The number of cases in Texas was fired by 81 between March 28 and 4 April and 16 people were hospitalized.
Republican American Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana,liverwhose vote was helped by Cinch Kennedy's confirmation, called Sunday for stronger reports from medical officialsIn the post on x.
“Everyone should be vaccinated! There is no measles treatment. No advantage to get measles,” he wrote. “The best healthcare officials should say that B/4 will clearly die another child.”
A CDC spokesman noted the effectiveness of the vaccine against measles on Sunday, but stopped calling people to get it.
A spokesman who was leaving the long -term sending of public health vaccination reports called “personal” decisions and said that people should talk to their doctor and “should be informed of the possible risks and benefits of vaccines”.
Disinformation on how to prevent and treat measles is prevented by a robust response to public health, including the demands on vitamin A supplements, which were pushed by supporters of Kennedy and Holistic medicine despite the doctors' warnings that it should be given according to the doctor's commands and that too much can be dangerous.
Doctors of the Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, where the first measles were first death, say they had treated less than 10 children from the liver problems from the toxicity of vitamin A, which they found in performing routine laboratory tests in podvacted children with measles. Dr. Lara Johnson, head of the Medical Director, said patients reported that they were using vitamin and for the treatment and prevention of virus.
Dr. Peter Marks, former chief of The Food and Drug AdministrationShe said responsibility for death lies in Kennedy and his employees. Marks was pushed out of the FDA after disagreements with Kennedy over the security of the vaccine.
“This is the embodiment of absolute unnecessary death,” Marks told Sunday in an interview with Associated Press. “These children should be vaccinated – so you will prevent people from dying measles.”
Marks also said that he recently warned US senators that there would be further deaths if the administration does not propose a more aggressive response to the outbreak. Kennedy was called to testify on Thursday before the Senate Health Committee.
Experts and local healthcare officials expect the focus to continueFor the next few monthsIf not a year. In Western Texas, the vast majority of cases are in non -unginned people and children under 17 years of age.
Since several states are facing the outbreak of preliminary vaccine disease-and by reducing the level of vaccination in childhood at a national level-some concerns that measles can become American status as an exclusion of the disease.
Measles are a respiratory virus that can survive in the air for up to two hours. Up to 9 out of 10 people who are prone, the virus gets if it is exposed,According to CDC. The first shot is recommended for children aged 12 to 15 months at the age of 4 to 6 years at the age of 4 to 6 years.
This story was originally listed on Fortune.com
