While the Trump administration continues to eliminate international public health measures, to finance from local health departments and to legitimize the wrong knowledge of health, some experts are now afraid that the country is now preparing the ground for a long -term measles to revive.
If the federal medical staff do not change the route, large multi -stage outbreaks may become norms such as tearing Western Texas, jumping to neighboring states and killing two people.
“We really opened the door for this virus to return” Former Director of Disease Control and Prevention Centers. Thomas R. said Frieden.
In order to occur in the United States in the United States, the virus must first be imported to the country and reach a large, unaccredible population.
Johns Hopkins is an epidemiologist at Bloomberg School of Public Health. William Moss said the last events seem more and more likely to be more likely.
Efforts to control the spread of public service were broken by the decision of withdrawing from the World Health Organization, which operates a network of more than 700 laboratories following the measles of the Trump administration in 164 countries.
The program, which helps to provide rapid public health response to the outbreaks that emerged, is based on the US to finance the annual budget of $ 8 million.
Administrative officials also reported that they plan to end the US financing for Gavi, an organization that helps to buy vaccines, including measles, mumps and rubellas in developing countries.
Gavi’s funds were not included in a list sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Congress last week. However, the organization has not yet received an official grant termination letter, and the leadership is lobbying to protect financing.
Professor Emeritus at the University of Emory and Professor Emeritus at CDC Walter Orenstein said, both WHO withdrawal and the possible loss of Gavi’s financing may cause an increase in measles cases abroad, and a US traveler increases the likelihood of bringing the virus back to the country, Walter Orenstein, Walter Orenstein
“People do not understand that supporting global vaccination is good not only for their countries but also for our country.” he said.
The dismissal of this week in the CDC included personnel who communicated with the public during infectious disease outbreaks and helped campaigns to encourage vaccination.
Now communication will be centralized in the Department of Health and Human Services under the control of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The department did not respond to comments.
Former CDC Director Frieden described the cuts as a recipe for a disaster ..
The national vaccination rate for measles falling during the COVİD-19 pandemi did not reach 95 percent of the virus to spread to a community. This increases the likelihood of an imported case to land and ignite a vulnerable population.
Roughly 93 percent MMR in kindergarten in the 2023-24 academic year took the MMR. However, vaccination rates are distributed unequally; Some communities have a rate of around 80 percent and are balanced by others that this figure is closer to 99 percent.
Now that HHS has reduced billions of dollars to local health departments, they can fight to suppress early outbreaks and allow the virus to jump to other unbelieled communities. (A judge temporarily prevented financing deductions after filed a lawsuit against Trump administration of a state coalition.)
During their emergencies, infectious disease is local health departments that investigate the source of the pathogen and may be exposed to quarantine.
The contact monitoring process is time consuming and resource intensive for a infectious virus, especially measles.
“A fire is burning and we also close all fire departments” Jennifer Nuzzo, Director of Pandemik Center of Public Health School of Brown, said.
The existing epidemic that started in Western Texas does not show signs of slowing down. More than 480 cases in the region and 56 hospitals have been subjected to 56 hospitals since the end of January. The epidemic also spread to the border states by disturbing 54 people in New Mexico and 10 people in Oklahoma.
Genetic sequence suggested that the epidemic was also dependent on 24 measles discovered in southwestern Kansas.
Measles were officially eliminated in the United States in 2000. However, the speed of the Texas epidemic and the fact that he jumped to other already vaccinated communities, said the United States has increased the probability of loss of this status.
If an infection chain persists for more than twelve months, measles are no longer eliminated. Public Health officials in Western Texas predicted that the outbreak would continue for a year.
A large measles epidemic of the New York province for about 12 months cost the country in 2019. The epidemic contained largely due to aggressive vaccination obligation, which was significantly helped. Increasing childhood vaccination rates in the community.
“We missed it with a hair, Dr. Dr. said. Nuzzo. “The place we are now is worse than that. “
Mr. Kennedy offered silent support for vaccination and stressed unidentified treatments for measles such as liver oil. According to doctors in Texas, the approval of alternative treatments contributed to patients’ delay in critical care and to swallow vitamin A to toxic levels.
Mr. Kennedy recently touched an important figure in his anti -vaccine movement to work on a study that examines the long -term theory, where vaccines were linked to autism.
If the country loses its elimination status, Dr. Moss said it was not possible to resemble the pre -vaccine period in which infection rates are infected until the age of 15.
However, it will mean more often and greater outbreaks that make life more risky for the most vulnerableness of society: young babies who are too young to be overcome and people with immunity.
“There are direct results-health fees, long-term health effects, Dr. Dr. Nuzzo said. Measles outbreaks like incredibly costly and destructive. “
“At the same time, only one shame. The United States makes the United States equal with some of the most resource limited environments in the world and steps with most high -income countries.”
