Texas measles epidemic, virus spreads between day care children approaching 500 cases
A Lubbock, six small children in Texas, tested positively for the day care center measles-a terrible scenario with the potential to accelerate an out-of-control epidemic.
More than a dozen other states and Washington, DC, is interested in measles cases that are not related to Texas.
On Friday, Texas Ministry of State Health Services 481 Cases of ApprovedA jump of 14% last week. Fifty -six people have been hospitalized in the region since the disease began to spread in late January.
Tiny Tots U Learning Academy, a center with approximately 230 babies, young children and preschool children, began on March 24th when a little girl who was sick with fire and vomiting began. Later, he had to be hospitalized for pneumonia and breathing problems.
Maegan Messick, the owner of the center, is between 5 months and 3 years of age who have tested positively in day care. None of them were completely instilled against measles.
For about two weeks, Messick is working with local medical staff who are in contact with the disease control centers and prevention centers. Messick, too many vulnerable children in such a great day care of how to handle measles, he said no clear guidance.
“From what I was told to me, CDC has no play book for that,” Messick said. “We just had to make calls for trials.”
The US faced the largest measles epidemic in six years, but remained relatively silent in the threat of public health of the CDC, provided only weekly updates on the website and sent it. A warning for doctors last month. The agency sent a 2,000 dose of MMR vaccine to Texas health authorities in its demands, but two major epidemics in New York have not organized a news briefing about Measles since 2019, when the US threatened to reversed the virus elimination status.
