The US Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traveled to West Texas on Sunday after a second child died of a measles in school.
Before a tour “Make America Healthy” through the southwest of the United States, Kennedy said in a social media post that he was in Gaines County to comfort families who had to bury two young children who died. Seminole, Texas, is the epicenter of a measles outbreak that began at the end of January and always swelled, with almost 500 cases in the state alone.
He said he also worked with Texas health officers to “control the measles outbreak”.
The child, which had not based on health conditions, died on Thursday “what the child’s doctors described as measles a heasure failure,” said the Texas Ministry of Health in a press release on Sunday. Aaron Davis, a spokesman for the UMC health system in Lubbock, Texas, said that the child had “received treatment for measles during the hospital”.
This is the third -famous measles that is associated with this outbreak. One was another child at school in Texas and the other was an adult in New Mexico. Neither were vaccinated.
Since the disinformation spreads through vaccines, a virologist and a pediatrician share the importance of maintaining vaccines to prevent the spread of harmful diseases such as polio and measles.
Kennedy, a lawyer against Avaccine, before he rises in the role of the country’s health secretary at the beginning of this year, has opposed to demand widespread vaccinations because the measles eruption deteriorated under his observation.
“The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine,” said Kennedy in a lengthy explanation published on social media. The measles, mumps and rubella vaccines have been used safely for more than 60 years and are effective against measles after two doses.
Teams from the US centers for the control and prevention of diseases were “reorganized,” said Kennedy, although the country’s public health authority had never withdrawn during the growing crisis. Neither the CDC nor the State Ministry of Health belonged to death in their measles reports, which were issued on Friday, added it to its counts on Sunday.
Nationwide, the United States has more than twice as many measles cases that it saw in 2024.
More than two months later, the outbreak from West Texas to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas is said to be spread out and reflect almost 570 people. The World Health Organization also reported cases related to Texas in Mexico.
The number of cases in Texas rose between March 28 and April 4 at 81, and 16 more people were taken to the hospital.
“Everyone should be vaccinated”
The US Republican Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, a liver doctor whose coordination helped Cinch Kennedy, called on Sunday in a contribution on social media for stronger news from health officers.
“Everyone should be vaccinated! There is no treatment for measles. No use for measles,” he wrote. “Top health officers should clearly say that another child dies.”
A CDC spokesman found the effectiveness of the measles vaccine on Sunday, but stopped asking for people to get it.
The spokesman described the decision as “personal” and said that people should speak to their doctor and “about the potential risks and advantages that should be connected to vaccines”, it said the decision as “personal”.
Misors of the prevention and treatment of measles hinder a robust reaction of public health, including claims on vitamin -a nutritional supplements, which have been promoted by Kennedy and Holistic Medicine supporters despite the warnings of the doctors who should be specified under the instructions of a doctor and can be too dangerous.
“Unnecessary death”
Doctors in the Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, where the first measles death appeared, said that they treated fewer than 10 children for liver problems from the vitamin -a -toxicity, which they found in the case of routine aborted children with measles. Dr. Lara Johnson, Chief Medical Officer, reported that patients used vitamin A to treat and prevent the virus.
Dr. Peter Marks, the former boss of vaccines at the US Food and Drug Administration, said that the responsibility for death was with Kennedy and his employees. After disagreements with Kennedy, Marks was forced to secure vaccine from the FDA.
“This is the epitome of an absolute unnecessary death,” said Marks The Associated Press in an interview on Sunday. “These children should be vaccinated – so they prevent people from dying from measles.”
Canada officially eliminated measles in 1998, but the recent outbreaks of the highly contagious virus in places such as the southwestern Ontario have civil servants of public health who ask people to be vaccinated.
Marks also said that he had recently warned the US senators that more deaths would take place if the government had no more aggressive response to the outbreak. Kennedy was testified on Thursday before the Senate Health Committee.
Experts and local health officers expect the outbreak to take a few months, if not a year more months. In West texas, the vast majority of cases are not vaccinated and children under the age of 17.
With several states that are exposed to the outbreak of vaccine regulations-and in the nationwide decline in the vaccination rate in the childhood-sind, some worry that the measles could cost the US status to eliminate the disease.
Measles is a breath virus that can survive in the air for up to two hours. According to CDC, up to nine out of ten susceptible people will receive the virus when they are uncovered. The first shot is recommended for children aged 12 to 15 months and the second for those aged four to six years.
