US Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy, Junior. A journey inWestern TexasSunday after the second non -vicinated school age diedfrom a disease associated with measles.
Ahead of the tour “Make America Healthy” in the southwest of the United States, in a social media report, Kennedy said he was in the Gaine district to comfort the families who were to bury two young children who died. Seminole – thisepicenter outbreaks of measlesIt started at the end of January and continues to gain, only 500 cases in Texas.
He said he also cooperated with Texas health officials to “control the measles outbreak.”
The child did not have basic health conditions and died on Thursday from “what the child’s doctors called measles of pulmonary failure,” the State Department of State Health Services said on SundayIn the news release. Aaron Davis, UMC Healthcare Press System in Libbok, Texas, said the child “receives treatment for measles complications during hospitalization.”
This is the third known death associated with this outbreak. One wasAnother school ageIn Texas and the other –adult in New -Mexico. None of them were vaccinated.
Kennedy, a supporter of the anti-vaccine, before the role of the highest secretary of health care nation earlier this year, resisted to call wide vaccinations when the measles flash deteriorated under his clock.
“The most effective way of preventing measles is the MMR vaccine,” Kennedy said in a long statement posted on X. Measles, parathye and vaccine for rubella were used safely for more than 60 years and after two doses act 97% against measles.
US centers for the control and prevention of the disease were “rewritten”, Kennedy added, although the health agency in the country never conveyed that it has retreated during the growing crisis. Neither the CDC nor the State Health Department included death in their measter reports on Friday, but added it to their calculations on Sunday.
Across the country in the US more than double the numberCases of measlesHe saw in all 2024.
More than two months in,Western TexasIt is believed that the flash spread to New Mexico, Oklah and Kansas,Sick almost 570 people. The World Health Organization also reported on Texas in Mexico. The number of cases in Texas increased until 81 years from March 28 to April 4, and 16 more were hospitalized.
US Republican Senator Bill Cassidi of Louisiana,doctor of the liverWhose voting helped confirm Sinch Kennedy, Sunday for stronger messages from health officialsin the message on x.
“Everyone should be vaccinated! No measles treatment. No use for measles,” he wrote. “The best health officials should say so clearly b/4 another child dies.”
The CDC press secretary noted the efficiency of the measles vaccine on Sunday, but stopped to urge people to get it.
Going out of many years of vaccination reports, the spokesman called the decision “personal” and said that people should talk to their doctor and “should be informed of potential risks and benefits related to vaccines.”
Misinformation on how to prevent and treat one, hinders a reliable reaction to the health of society, including claims to vitamin A supplements, which were encouraged by Kennedy and holistic medicine supporters, despite the warnings of doctors that it should be given according to the doctor’s orders and that too much can be dangerous.
Doctors at the Children’s Hospital of the covenant in Labbok, where the death of the first measles occurred, they say they treated less than 10 children for liver problems with vitamin A toxicity, which they found when performing ordinary laboratory tests on insufficient children who have one. Dr. Lara Johnson, the chief physician, said patients said they use vitamin A to treat and prevent the virus.
Dr. Peter Marx, former head of the Vaccine Vaccine and MedicinesHe said that the responsibility for death was resting with Kennedy and his staff. Marx was forced to get out of the FDA after Kennedy’s disagreement over the safety of the vaccine.
“This is the embodiment of an absolute unnecessary death,” Marx Associated Press said in an interview on Sunday. “These children should be vaccinated – that’s how you prevent people from dying from measles.”
Marx also said he had recently warned US senators that there would be more death if the administration does not lead to a more aggressive reaction to the outbreak. Kennedy was intended to testify to the Senate Health Committee on Thursday.
Experts and local health officials expect the outbreakA few more monthsIf not a year. In Western Texas, the vast majority of cases are in non -vicinated people and children under the age of 17.
With several states that causes the vaccine outbreaks, a decrease in the level of vaccination in child vaccination across the country, the measles can cost its status in the United States.
Measles are a breathing virus that can survive in the air up to two hours. Up to 9 out of 10 people who are sensitive will receive the virus when exposed,According to the Center for Disease Control. The first shot is recommended for children between the ages of 12 and 15 months and the second between 4 and 6 years.
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