Six young children in Lubok, Texas, tested a positive daycare center for the group – a scary scenario with the ability to already accelerate Outbreak This has spread at least two other states.
More than ten other states and Washington, DC, deals with measles, which have nothing to do with Texas.
On Friday, the Texas Ministry of Health said that the number of fees has increased to 481 confirmed cases14 % leap more than last week. Fifty -six people have been transferred in the hospital in the area since the disease began to spread in late January.
At Tits Tots U Learning Academy, a center with about 230 infants, young children and pre -school children at the age of age began on March 24, when a little girl was tested with fever and vated positively. She needed the hospital later to pneumonia and breathing troubles.
Maijan Missik, the co -owner of the center, said that children who have experienced positive day care so far between the ages of 5 months and 3 years. Nothing was immunized against measles.
For nearly two weeks, mess works with local health officials who are in contact with diseases control and prevention control centers. Mesk said that it has not been given clear guidelines on how to deal with measles in such large day care with many weak children.
“From what was said to me, the center of diseases control does not have a book playing for this.” “We just had to make ruling calls.”
The United States faces the largest measles in six years, but the Center for Disease Control has been relatively silent on the threat of public health, as it provides only weekly updates on its website and send it Warning for doctors last month. The agency sent 2000 doses from the MMR vaccine to Texas Building officials Two major outbreaks in New York He threatened to oppose the United States’ situation in eliminating the virus.
On Friday, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, which exceeds the center of diseases control, did not respond to a question about whether any briefing in the business to address the outbreak of the current measles.
It was not clear whether the mass demobilization operations in HHS and CDC this week could lead to such efforts. but Discounts in acute financing to community health departments It has already announced that some areas have been forced to cancel vaccine clinics.
Dallas CountyFor example, she had to cancel more than 50 clinics. Many schools have been planned in areas with low vaccination rates.
According to NBC News, 628 cases of measles were reported at the national level in 2025. Other states include Kansas outbreaks with 23 cases, okhaoma with 10 cases, and New Mexico with 54 cases. Olyo 17.
The cases in the Lubok Care Center are likely to be associated with the disease outbreak, Jeans CountyCatherine Wells, Lubuk’s Public Health Director, said.
Wales said she is concerned about cases that are spreading in children’s care centers since the beginning of the outbreak.
“I think we will have additional outbreaks at other daytime care centers,” she said. “This will not be the only one.”
“She and her employees are trying to reduce the risk of spreading more by watching children closely for symptoms and isolating some classrooms.
They also urge other children’s care facilities to encourage their families to obtain a mmr vaccine. Families who choose to not vaccinate their children were asked to keep them at home for at least 21 days.
Two doses are almost adequate to give life protection against measles, according to what he said CDC. Certainly people who are immune who are exposed to the virus suffer from injury.
The first dose is usually given until after the birth of the first child, but it can be presented early in 6 months.
“This is the best children in childcare people to do now,” said Msik. “It is coming. There is no way to overcome it.”
