Texas doctors say they are concerned about it Measles Population to population centers in outbreaks, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expect that “”Expand“.
Two people died, Including a childAnd at least 208 people were exposed to the disease across the West Texas and New Mexico After the outbreak of vaccine, which can be canceled in the rural Jeans province.
“It is a worrying thing,” said Dr. Ron Cook, a Lubuk family medicine specialist, who works as a boycott of the province. “Lubbock is the largest medical center, shopping center, and others Texas He visits.
“Come here to shop at Big Box – Walmart, Costco, SAM, etc.,” Cook said, adding that Lubbock hospitals have already treated 38 patients of the disease.
The deaths are the first of measles in Almost a decade – It comes as a test of the new Minister of Health of the Trump Administration, Robert P. Kennedy JuniorCriticized for a long time of vaccines.
Cook described the curve of the outbreak, familiar to those who saw infections rising and falling during the Covid-19 pandemic, still on the “slope”.
His concerns are shared by other local doctors, such as Dr. Philip Huang, Director of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services in Dallas Province, who have been told locally CBS A news: “There is concern about the spread of some people in West Texas throughout the country. It is not slowing down. This has not ended, and there will be more cases,” news belonging.
Cook said that people are also traveling for maternity care and pediatrics. He is concerned that they are exposed to immunity and breastfeeding on measles in the doctor’s waiting rooms.
“Personally, I don’t think I expected it, although I am not surprised,” said Dr. Tami Camp Camp, a children’s residency coordinator at the University of Texas Technology. health Science Center, also in Lubok. When vaccinating a number of people, she said: “You always know that you are mature for the possibility of the disease.”
Measles is one of the most well -known infectious diseases of medicine. Doctors often use an example of a room full of people to clarify this: if 10 non -imprisoned personnel enters and one gets measles, A nine infected vacation.
the CDC expects The outbreak of continuing to spread and may get worse with the travel season in the next spring and summer. Although the measles were once a common disease in childhood, it is not without risks and general misery.
The most common symptoms include a distinctive rash from top to bottom, fever, ciliary brand, red, water eyes. Severe symptoms are less common but can be devastating: about one of a thousand children with severe swelling in the brain, called encephalitis, a condition that can lead to seizures, deafness and mental disability. Between one and three out of a thousand will die.
In addition, scientists believe that measles infection can make people more vulnerable to secondary infections for several months because it suppresses the immune system. It can also hit very rare conditions: about 25,000 children, or the equivalent of about Four every yearHe suffers from a nerve nervous condition called Steel inflammation under severe. This disease is presented after years of dementia -like symptoms, which are eventually fatal.
Measles 97 % effective In preventing the disease. The side effects of the vaccine, although they are uncomfortable, are usually transient, and include fever and rash. Rare side effects, such as a fever seizure, are almost 10 times less than children who die than measles infection, according to the studies I mentioned CDC.
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“Any child dies for a pediatrician is difficult, it is difficult,” said Camp. “Watching them faces difficulty breathing, watching them have a rash, and seeing them feel very healing and angry – and knowing that it can be prevented – is difficult and frustrated.”
She said that the vast majority of Americans are still receiving their children, and many of them call an early vaccination camp. It is recommended for measles, mumps and measles (MMR) for children between the ages of 12 and 15 months. However, the measles are so contagious that the vaccination covering less than 95 % can allow its spread. This can make a place like Lubbock weak, even when it is not the center of the disease.
The danger was particularly sharp since the epidemic, when more children were absent from routine vaccinations due to Close the clinic and schoolsAnd he greatly gained the anti -vaccine activists Political powerEnjoy more donations during the epidemic.
RFK JR, who was once a critic of the country, responded to the outbreak of measles in Texas by reducing the dangers of the virus and vaccine effectiveness, framing the vaccination as a personal option, and Recommendation of good nutrition and vitamins.
Cook, who argues that it is not useful to compare alternative treatments that have not been tested in the United States with a very effective vaccine, said, “
Camp pointed out that, to some extent, “vaccines are a victim of their success.”
“When you have people who have never seen the disease before, it becomes easier for fear of the vaccine,” she said.
