It is struggling to contain the raging measles epidemic in West Texas, and public health officials are increasingly worried that the population depends on the impressive treatments approved by Robert F. Kennedy Junior, Minister of Health, and postponing the visits of doctors until the disease increases.
Hospitals and officials I seemed warning this weekIssuing a notice explaining the measles symptoms that justify immediate medical attention and emphasize the importance of timely treatment.
““I am concerned that we have children and parents taking all these other medications and then delaying care,” said Catherine Wales, Lubuk’s public health director, Texas, where many children were transferred in the outbreak of this fascism.
She added that some children with serious diseases have been given alternative treatments such as cod liver oil. “If they were, very sick and have low oxygen levels, they should have been in hospital a day or two earlier,” she said.
The increased outbreak of approximately 260 People in Texas. To date, 34 patients have been transferred to the hospital, and one child died. In the neighboring New Mexico provinces, the virus 35 is hospitalized. Two cases in Oklahoma were too Outbreak.
Texas health officials believe that the real number of cases is much higher. In all, there were 301 measles in the United States this year, the highest number since 2019, according to the centers of diseases control and prevention on Friday.
In his first general statements about the outbreak of the disease, Mr. Kennedy faced a severe violent reaction Reducing the situationSaying that it was not “unusual” and claimed that many of the people who were taken to the hospital were “mainly for quarantine.”
In the following weeks, Mr. Kennedy changed his approaches, as he made a silent recommendation of vaccines to people in West Texas while promoting unproven treatments such as Cod liver oilIt contains vitamin A, and is described “almost a miracle and immediate” with stimulants or antibiotics.
There is no such treatment for stiffness, only medications to help manage symptoms. Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent infection.
While doctors sometimes manage high doses of vitamin A in the hospital to help manage severe cases of measles, there is no reliable evidence that nutritional supplements are effective to treat measles or prevent them.
Experts also noticed that antibiotics, which fight bacterial infections, can be used to treat secondary infections but do not stop measles themselves, which is a virus.
In the province of Guin, Texas, the center of measles, alternative medicine was always common. Many in the large Mennonite community in the region, where most measles were collected, avoid interaction with the medical system and adhere to a long tradition of natural remedies.
In the past few weeks, pharmacy In West Texas, she struggled to keep vitamin A and pods of cod liver oil on their shelves.
This week, doctors at the Siminol Memorial Hospital, which is located in the center of Guinns, noted that the number of patients who came to measles symptoms suddenly decreased. Those who appeared were more ill of patients who were seen in previous weeks.
Despite the increase in cases in society, Dr. Laila Merik, a hospital doctor, said that she conducted half of measles tests, compared to the previous week.
She was concerned that her patients instead were less than a mile from the hospital to a popup clinic, where the doctor from a neighboring city was out of alternative treatments, such as cod liver oil and vitamin C.
The doctor, Dr. Bin Edwards, is well known in the region to produce vocal materials that often discuss the risk of vaccines, and the health clinic in Lubok, which rejects the central principles of medicine, such as the idea that germs cause some diseases.
In an interview with Fox News, Mr. Kennedy said that he spoke with Dr. Edwards (who accidentally described him as Dr. Ed Benjamin) and learned “what works on the ground.”
In an email message that was transferred through an employee, Dr. Edwards confirmed that he had spoken to Mr. Kennedy for about 15 minutes, in what he described as a phone call “collecting information”. Dr. Edwards refused to speak directly with the New York Times.
In the following days, hundreds of people from the mennonite community link up at Dr. Edwards’s Makeshift Clinic, Held Behind A Local Health Food Store, Said Tina Siemens, Who Help Ourganize the Event.
Ms. Siemens said that people looking for an active measles infections and those who hope to prevent one to attend.
To obtain adequate supplements for the clinic, Dr. Edwards recruited one of his patients, a pilot, to travel to Scottisel, Ariche, and pick up nearly a thousand bottles of vitamin C supplements and cod liver oil, as a soft, lemon drink, and Patrick Sullivan.
“How much do you have in the stock, and how can you get to me?” Mr. Sullivan summoned Dr. Edwards asking.
Ms. Siemens said the treatments were free. Members of the Children’s Health Defense, a non -profit organization, is an organized anti -erasing organization that helped Mr. Kennedy found before becoming the Minister of Health, created a Donate page Online that raised more than $ 16,000 to help cover the cost of “vitamins, supplements and basic medicines”.
Measles symptoms often solve alone within a few weeks. But in rare cases, the virus can cause pneumonia, making it difficult for patients, especially children, to get oxygen in their lungs. There can also be swelling in the brain, which can cause permanent problems, such as blindness, deafness and mental disabilities. Both complications can be fatal.
Lubok’s health director, Lubok, said during the outbreak of this fascism, that children with pneumonia had to have been exposed to the tube. In these circumstances, timely care can mean the difference between life and death.
Patsey Stinsterilde, the former direct president of the National Infectious Corporation, said that unintegrated treatments have made measles outbreaks more deadly.
She worked as a nurse in a hospital in Minnesota during the outbreak of measles in 1989, killing many children. Two of them arrived at her hospital in critical condition after their parents were inclined to at home with Traditional recovery treatments.
“They keep their children at home for a very long time, and they are trying these home remedies,” she said. “They went directly from ER to the intensive care unit and Tofio“
