One daily maintenance facility in a Texas district measles epidemic There are more than one cases, including very young children to be. totally vaccinatedPublic Health officials say.
Western Texas is in the middle of a measles epidemic that is still growing with 481 cases on Friday. The state expanded the number of districts in the field of epidemic this week to 10. The highly infectious virus began to spread in late January, and health officials said that New Mexico has spread to Oklahoma, Kansas and Mexico.
Three people who have not been vaccinated died of measles related to measles this year, Primary school elderly children In Texas. The second child died on Thursday at a Lubbock Hospital and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended the funeral Seminol, the epidemic of the epidemic.
Lubbock Public Health Director Katherine Wells said on Friday that a little boy infectiously gave to two other children before spreading to other classes, he said.
“Measles are so infectious that I will not be surprised if it enters other facilities,” Wells said.
Wells, there are more than 200 children in daytime care, and most of them had at least one dose of measles, mumps and measles vaccine, which first a second shot between 12 to 15 months and 4 to 6 years.
“We have some children who are currently infected, some of them are infected,” he said.
The Public Health Department suggests that any child with only one vaccine should take the second dose early and changed his suggestion to get the first vaccine dose instead of 1 for children in Lubbock County. A child who humiliated and participated in day care, said he should stay at home for 21 days since they were exposed.
Case count in Texas and the number of hospitalization have climbed steadily since the outbreak began, and 16 more people were taken to hospital with 81 cases from March 28 to 4 April.
Spokesman Jason McDonald said on Monday, US Disease Control and Prevention Centers met with Texas officials on Monday. He waited for a small team to arrive later this week, followed by a larger group next week.
CDC, the first team from the beginning of March to April 1, and a second child died in the epidemic days before the day before the on -site support days, he said.
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AP correspondent in Washington Amanda Seitz contributed to this report.
