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At least one dead when dozens infected in the outbreak of multi-states of measles
An outbreak of measles has infected dozens in several states, with at least one reported death of children in Texas.
While Texas continues to fight with a growing outbreak of measles that is just a shy of 200 sick and a killed, more states report their own things, including a second measles -related death in New Mexico.
Since January, measles infections have surfaced in at least eight states, with the strongest concentration outside of Texas just across the border in New Mexico.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updates monthly case numbers, so that the task of following and announcing the spread in the weeks between individual state health departments registers.
The Texas Department of State Health Services, which updates his measles case numbers twice a week, announced on Friday that confirmed that infections were up to 198, usually in children. All cases except for one in non-vaccinated people or people with an unknown vaccination status, and most (137) took place in the distant West-Texas in Gaines County, which had a percentage of 13.6% of non-medical vaccine exemptions at K-12 students, according to 2023-2024 state data.
Twenty-three people were admitted to the hospital in Texas from Friday and a non-vaccinated, school-going child died. A non -vaccinated adult in New Mexico also died, the state reported this week.
In New Mexico a total of 30 cases were reported in the entire state, including death, the health department said on Friday, all in Lea County, which is facing the Texas Staatslijn and Gaines County. Eleven of the infected person was younger than 18, while the other were 15 adults and four were not yet known.
In the meantime, Georgia has kept stable in three confirmed cases, together with California who also reported three. Rhode Island reported one, while Alaska and New York City had two. New Jersey reported three cases and Florida reported his first case earlier this week.
See map of states with measles cases
What is measles and how do you get?
Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-in disease caused by a virus that mainly and most seriously affect children. According to the World Health Organization, it infects the airways before it spreads throughout the body.
The virus is one of the most infectious infectious diseases to exist; So contagious, in fact that 90% of the non -vaccinated people who are exposed are ultimately to the contract. Moreover, one in five of those people ends in the hospital, according to the CDC.
What are the symptoms of measles?
According to the CDC, Symptoms appear Seven to 14 days after contact with the virus and usually include a high fever, cough, runny nose and watery eyes. Measles result appears three to five days after the start of the first symptoms.
Other signs and symptoms of measles are:
- When the result appears, the fever of a person can spijken up to more than 104 degrees Fahrenheit
- High fever
- Cough
- Runny nose and sneezing
- Red, watery eyes
- Loss of appetite, diarrhea
- Reddish -brown rash that can spread throughout the body
- Head lick spots, small white spots that can appear in the mouth for two to three days after the symptoms begin
- Small raised bumps can also appear on the flat red spots (the stains can merge if they spread from the head to the rest of the body)
RFK Jr. With parents, it urges to consider measles vaccine
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the best health officer of the nation, asked parents to consider measles vaccinations for their children, but did not suggest them downright.
Referring to the fatal outbreak as a “call to action”, Kennedy wrote in an opinion piece that was published on FOX News Digital on Sunday that parents should consult doctors about the MMR vaccine, which also relates to BOF and Rubella.
Despite that RFK Jr. He said that he is not an anti-vaccine during confirmation hearings, he has wrongly linked false vaccines with autism in the past and has insisted on parents not to vaccinate their children. Although the current outbreak in a decade resulted in the first measles dead, RFK initially called the Golf ‘not unusual’ in cases.
“The decision to vaccinate is personal,” wrote Kennedy. “Vaccines not only protect individual children against measles, but also contribute to the immunity of the community, and protects those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.”
Experts have also warned against JFK’s suggestion to use vitamin A for measles prevention, and say that it is not based on science and vaccines are the only effective form of protection.
Contributions: Janet Loehrke, Eduardo Cuevas, US today
