Ninety cases of Measles has been reported in Texas in less than a month, which marks the worst outbreak of the disease in the border state over 30 years. At least 16 people have been admitted to the hospital. Nine measles cases have also been reported in the neighboring state of New Mexico.
According to officials of the Texas Department of State Health Services, the outbreak is concentrated in the northwest of the state. Of these cases, at least 77 are among children, 26 years of age or less.
Measles is a highly contagious viral disease that can be fatal. Initial symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat and conjunctivitis. It is usually distinguished by a generalized rash throughout the body along with white spots inside the mouth.
According to the PAN American Health Organization, Khasre once killed 2.6 million people worldwide, out of which 12,000 victims were in the US. The first measles vaccine came in 1963, and after its rollout in the US, cases across the country declined by 97 percent between 1965 and 1968. Large scale vaccination campaigns around the world spread these benefits worldwide. Between 1980 and 2015, cases around the world decreased by 95 percent for joint vaccine against measles, groise, and rubella (MMR), which is given in two doses starting at the age of 1 year.
However, doubts about the effects of vaccines including MMR have spread worldwide. For example, the current outbreak in Texas focuses around the Ganes County, with one of the highest vaccine discount rates in the state (18 percent). Many patients are children whose parents chose them not to vaccinate against measles.
While in most states of the US, students require MMR vaccine to go to school, some state families allow their children to request exemption from vaccination, even from non -causes. Texas is one such state. In the current outbreak, 85 out of 90 measles cases are among unnatural people.
“We respect everyone’s rights for vaccination or not,” told Texas Standard, CEO of Seminole Hospital district at Ganes Country. “That’s not being an American, not that?”
In 2024, 285 measles cases were reported in the United States, the highest number since 2019. Belis percent were children below 5 years of age.
The approach to prevent this disease is not bright. Robert F., an outbreak of measles in Texas. Kennedy comes a week later after Junior, which was confirmed as the head of the US Health and Human Services Department. RFK Junior first increased as an environmental advocate and then as a notorious anti-Vaxin worker.
Kennedy has repeatedly stretched the vaccine misconception – for example, that autism and attention deficit activity disorders occur among other factors, harmful agents in vaccines. In 2021, he was nominated by the Center to counter the digital hate, which was one of the “disineformation dose”, one of the 12 leading online anti-discouers.
Neither Robert F. Kennedy Junior nor Texas Governor Greg Abbott commented on the state’s health emergency. Neither immediately responded to the request to comment from Wired.
This story appeared originally Wire N aspanol And has been translated from Spanish.
