US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He went to West Texas on Sunday after a second unvaccinated school -age child died of a disease associated with Odera.
Before the “Make America Healthy” route in the south -western United States, Kennedy told in a post in social media that he was in Gainas in the poke of Gaines to comfort families who had to bury two young children who died. Seminels in Texas are the epicenter of the Odra outbreak, which began at the end of January and is still swelling, with almost 500 cases in the state.
He said that he also cooperates with health officials in Texas to “control the Odra explosion.”
A child who had no health conditions underlying the underlying health conditions died on Thursday because of what the child's doctors described as a lung failure, “he said on Sunday at the Health Department in Texas. Aaron Davis, a spokesman for UMC Health System in Lubbock in Texas, said that the child “received the treatment of measles complications during hospitalization.”
This is the third known death associated with the Odra associated with this explosion. One was another school in Texas, and the other adult in Nowy Mexico. None of them was vaccinated.
Because disinformation on vaccines is still spreading, a virologist and pediatrician divide the importance of obtaining vaccines to prevent the spread of harmful diseases such as polio and measles.
Kennedy, a supporter of anti-partitions before rising to the role of the Secretary of Health of the country at the beginning of this year, resisted persuading universal vaccinations when the Odra explosion deteriorated under his watch.
“MMR vaccine is the most effective way to prevent measles,” said Kennedy in a long statement published on social media. Brave, pig and rose vaccine have been used safely for over 60 years and is effective in relation to the Odra after two doses.
Teams from American control and disease prevention centers have been “implemented again,” said Kennedy, although the National Public Health Agency never said that she withdrew during the growing crisis. Neither CDC nor the State Department of Health included death in their reports of the Odra released on Friday, but they added it to their reasons on Sunday.
The United States has more than twice as much as the number of measles he saw in the whole of 2024 throughout the country.
It is believed that over two months of the explosions of Western Texas spread to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas, disgusting almost 570 people. The World Health Organization also reported cases related to Texas in Mexico.
The number of cases in Texas increased by 81 between March 28 and April 4, and 16 more people were hospitalized.
“Everyone should be vaccinated”
The US Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a liver, whose voice helped Cinch confirming Kennedy, called on Sunday to stronger news from health officials in a post in social media.
“Everyone should be vaccinated! There is no treatment for measles. There is no benefit from obtaining measles,” he wrote. “The best health officials should be so clearly b/4 other child dies.”
The CDC spokesman noticed the effectiveness of the opposing vaccine on Sunday, but he stopped calling people to get them.
Departing from many years of public health messages around vaccinations, the spokesman called this decision “personal” and said that people should talk to the doctor and “should be informed about potential risks and benefits related to vaccines.”
Formation about how to prevent and treat measles, hinders a solid reaction of public health, including claims about vitamin A supplements, which were pushed by Kennedy's supporters and holistic medicine despite doctors' warnings that it should be given on the order of a doctor and that too much can be dangerous.
“Unnecessary death”
Doctors in the Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, where the first death of the Odra took place, claim that they treated less than 10 children because of problems with vitamin A toxicity, which they found while conducting routine laboratory tests on underestimated children who have measles. Dr. Lara Johnson, medical director, said that patients reported the use of vitamin A to treat and prevent the virus.
Dr. Peter Marx, a former head of the vaccine from the American Food and Drug Agency, said that responsibility for death rests with Kennedy and his staff. Marx was forced to leave the FDA after a dispute with Kennedy for vaccine safety.
“This is the personification of absolute unnecessary death,” said Marx Associated Press in an interview on Sunday. “These children should be vaccinated – in this way you prevent people from dying from the Oder.”
Canada officially eliminated the Oder in 1998, but recent explosions of a highly contagious virus in places such as Southwestern Ontario have public health officials to call people to vaccinate.
Marx also said that he recently warned the US senators that there would be more deaths if the administration did not carry out a more aggressive response to the explosion. Kennedy was called to testify before the Senate Health Committee on Thursday.
Experts and local health officials expect the explosion to take several months, if not a year. In Western Texas, the vast majority of cases take place in unvaccinated people and children under the age of 17.
With several states, in the face of an outbreak of a disease that prevents vaccines-a decrease in childhood vaccination indicators throughout the country-non-indications are afraid that the Odra may cost the United States because it has eliminated the disease.
Odra is a breathing virus that can survive in the air for up to two hours. According to CDC, up to nine out of 10 people who are susceptible will get a virus if it is disclosed. The first shot is recommended for children from 12 to 15 months, and the second for people aged four to six years.