Texas Health officials begged families residing in the state, urging them to avoid participating “measles parties “and ensure that their children are vaccinated in the wake of a Severe measles epidemic It has already killed a child.
The “parts of measles” refer to the rallies in which participants deliberately expose themselves to the disease in a controlled environment in order to build natural immunity instead of obtaining a vaccine, reported Dallas News.
“It is not good to organize celebrations in measles … Let me discourage you from doing so,” said Dr. Ron Cook, Director of Health of Texas Tech University Health Center in Lubbock, during a Friday press briefing. “We cannot predict who will do badly with measles, be hospitalized and potentially obtain pneumonia or encephalitis and / or go.”
Before the invention of the chickenpox vaccine in 1995, people would attend “chickenpox parts” for the same reasons, which would result in rapid spread of the disease. Dnshots is among the most contagious viruses worldwide and can have a serious impact on those who are not vaccinated.
On Monday, there are nearly 150 cases of disease in the state, according to the Texas Department of Health Services, with a non -vaccinated Child dying of the disease last month.
“There are serious results such as pneumonia or death. There is encephalitis or brain inflammation. Even rarer, but it can happen … years later after developing measles, you can get what are called the sububiguës, which is fatal.
Secretary of health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also encouraged people to get the measles vaccine after the news of the epidemic, despite the fact that the epidemic was “unusual“At the first meeting of the cabinet of President Donald Trump.
“The end of the measles epidemic is an absolute priority for me and my extraordinary team,” said Kennedy in an article on X.
Originally published by Latin time.
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