US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He visited Texas’s still growing central base measles epidemic On Sunday, a funeral was held for a second small child without vaccination on the same day and He died of a disease about measles.
Kennedy said in a social media post to öyle control the outbreak ”and Gaines County To relieve the families of the two little children. It was seen outside a Mennonite Church where funeral services were held on Sunday afternoon, but did not attend a news conference on the outbreak by the US disease control centers.
Seminole The central base of the outbreak, It started in late January and continued to swell – it was believed that only 500 cases in Texas, as well as cases from the outbreak to New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Mexico.
The second little child died on Thursday because he defined the child’s doctor as measles pulmonary insufficiency “and did not have the underlying health conditions, In a news bulletin. UMC Health System Spokesman Aaron Davis at Lubbock said that the child was “treated for measles complications while being hospitalized”.
This is the death of the third measles known to this epidemic. Someone Another primary school old child In Texas, the other An adult in New Mexico; Neither of them was vaccinated.
Kennedy’s first visit to the region as a health secretary, said that 6 and 8 -year -old children came together with their families. He said that he developed “bonds” Mennonity community in Western Texas The virus is mostly spread.
Earlier this year, before he rose to the role of the nation’s best health secretary, Kennedy, an anti -vaccine advocate, resisted calling for widespread vaccines as the measles epidemic deteriorated under his clock. However, on Sunday, a long statement published in X, “the most effective way to prevent measles spread,” he said.
Measles, mumps and rubella vaccine have been used safely for more than 60 years and after two doses, it is 97% effective against measles.
CDC Event Manager Manisha Patel said MMR vaccine at a Sunday News conference is the best way to protect against measles. He also told parents at Gaines County that it is important for a child to be sick of measles.
Patel, “Call your doctor and make sure you talk to a healthcare professional who can guide you in the next steps,” he said.
Kennedy’s social media article said that CDC employees were “re -deployed”. CDC spokesman Jason McDonald was late on Sunday, the first CDC team came in early March and left Gaines County on April 1, a team led by Patel was ordered by Kennedy and was re -deployed as requested by the governor of Texas and came to evaluate the needs today.
When asked about the epidemic of journalists in Air Force One on Sunday, Trump said, “They make reports on this issue,” he said.
Neither the CDC nor the State Health Department did not involve death in the measles reports published on Friday, but when the CDC was asked Sunday, he accepted it.
The number of cases in Texas increased by 81 between 28 March and 4 April and 16 more people were taken to hospital. There are more than twice the number of the USA throughout the country Measles cases He saw it all over 2024.
From Louisiana Bill Cassidy, Republican USA, A liver doctor Votes called on Sunday for stronger messages than medical staff who helped Cinch Kennedy’s approval. In a shipment in x.
“Everyone should be vaccinated! There is no treatment for measles. There is no use of measles,” he wrote. “High -level medical officials, such a clear way B/4 Another child died.”
Cassidy demanded Kennedy To appear before the health committee on Thursday, but Kennedy did not explain to the public whether he would join.
A CDC spokesman recorded the effectiveness of the measles vaccine on Sunday, but stopped calling people to buy. Sözcü, who left the public health messages that have been going on for a long time around the vaccination, described the decision as “personal ve and encouraged people to talk to their doctors. “It should be informed about potential risks and benefits associated with vaccines, Söz said the spokesman.
False information about how to prevent and treat measles is that doctors should be given under the orders of a doctor and can be too dangerous.
The doctors at the Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, where the first measles death occurred, say that they treat less than 10 children for children who do not completely vaccine and make routine laboratory tests in children who are not completely vaccinated and measles. Chief Medical Officer Lara Johnson reported that patients use vitamin A to treat and prevent the virus.
Peter Marx, the former vaccine chief of the Food and Pharmaceutical AdministrationThe responsibility of death belongs to Kennedy and its staff. Marks was forced from FDA after disagreements on vaccination security with Kennedy.
In his interview on Sunday, Marx said to Associated Press, “The essence of this absolute unnecessary death.” “These children should be vaccinated – you prevent people from die of measles.”
Marks also warned the US senators that more deaths would occur if it does not react more aggressively to the administration epidemic.
Experts and local health officials are waiting for the outbreak to continue A few more months If not a year. In Western Texas, the majority of cases are not vaccinated and children under 17 years of age.
A few states are concerned that the decrease in childhood vaccine rates across the vaccine-prevented disease epidemics by the vaccine-the decrease in childhood vaccine rates may cost measles eliminating the United States.
Measles is a respiratory virus that can survive up to two hours in the air. It will take the virus if exposed to 9 people from 10 sensitive people According to HKM. The first shot is recommended for 12 to 15 months, and the second is recommended for children aged 4 to 6 years.
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Seitz reported from Washington. Seminolle, photojournalist Annie Rice in Texas and AP correspondent in Washington Matthew Perrone contributed to this report.
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