With the Trump administration transferred to Dismantling international public health guaranteesand Withdrawal of financing from local health departments and Legitimacy to wrong informationSome experts are now afraid that the country is putting the way for measles in the long run.
If federal health officials do not change the path, great multi -layer outbreaks such as those that were torn through West Texas, jumping into neighboring states and killing two people, may become the base.
“We really opened the door to this virus to return” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In order to spread in the United States, the virus must first be imported to the country, and a large number of unacceptable population must be reached.
Dr. William Moss, the epidemic scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg College of Public Health, said the recent events made both conditions seem to be increasingly.
The efforts made to control the spread of measles at the international level were disrupted due to the recent Trump administration’s decision Withdraw from the World Health OrganizationIt runs a network of more than 700 laboratories tracking measles in 164 countries.
The program – which helps to ensure rapid public health responses for emerging outbreaks – depends on the United States to finance its annual budget of $ 8 million.
Administration officials also indicated that they intend to do so End the United States for Javi Finance, which is an organization This helps to buy vaccines, including those of measles, mumps and measles, in developing countries.
Gavi’s money was not included in a list sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Congress last week from programs that intend to continue support. However, the organization has not yet received an official letter to end the grants, and its leadership pressures the administration to maintain financing.
Dr. Walter Orincity, Professor Al -Fakhari at Emory University, said that both the World Health Organization, withdrawal and possible loss of Ghafi’s funding.
“People do not understand that supporting global immunization is not only beneficial to their countries, but for our country” He said.
Among the demobilization of workers this week on the center of control of diseases is the employees Communicate with the audience During the outbreak of infectious diseases and the help of morphological campaigns to encourage vaccination.
Now the communications will be central to the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, under the control of the Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who is skeptical of the vaccine. The administration did not respond to the comment requests.
Dr. Frieden, former director of the Center for Control of Diseases, described the discounts as a “recipe for disaster”.
The national fortification rate of the group, which decreased during the Covid-19 pandemic, did not recover to 95 percent required to stop the spread of the virus in society. This raises the chances that the imported issue will fall into a group of weak population and ignite it.
About 93 percent From the children in the kindergarten, they got a MMR shot in the 2023-24 academic year. But vaccination rates are unevenly distributed; Some societies have about 80 percent rates, which are met by others as the number is closer to 99 percent.
Now that HHS moved to cut Billion dollars For local health departments, they may struggle to cancel the disease early, allowing the virus to jump to other non -fortified societies. (judge It was temporarily banned It reduces funding after a lawsuit against the state alliance for the Trump administration.)
During the emergency of infectious diseases, local health departments are looking at the source of the nurse and tracking anyone who may have been detected so that stone can be detected.
The contact tracking process takes a long and intense resource, especially for gastric virus such as measles.
“A burning fire and at the same time closing all the firefighting sections” Jennifer Nuzu, director of the Publishing Center at the College of Public Health at the University of Brown, said.
The current fascism that started in West Texas does not appear any signs of slowdown. There have been more than 480 cases in the area and 56 cases in the hospital since late January. The outbreak of the disease also spread to the adjacent countries, as they wrapped 54 people in New Mexico and 10 in Oklahoma.
The genetic sequence suggested that the disease outbreak is also linked to 24 cases of measles discovered in the southwest of Kansas.
Dr. Nuzu said that the measles were officially eliminated in the United States in 2000. But the speed of the Texas spread and the fact that it has already jumped to other non -shredded societies makes it likely to lose the United States.
Measles are no longer considered if a series of infections persists for more than twelve months. West Texas public health officials expected that the will will be spread Last.
The outbreak of the big measles that spread across parts of New York State for approximately 12 months. Increased childhood immunization rates In society.
Dr. Nuzu said: “We missed this with hair.” “Where we are now worse than that“
Mr. Kennedy’s offer Continue support for vaccination And his son Emphasizing unparalleled treatments For a group, such as cod liver oil. According to the doctors in Texas, his support in alternative treatments contributed to delaying patients Toxic levels Vitamin A.
Mr. Kennedy recently Take a prominent character In the Anti -Qazi Movement to work in the study of examining the theory that has long been buried that vaccines are linked to autism.
Dr. Mousse said that if the country loses the state of cancellation, it is unlikely to resemble the rates of pre -erased era, when almost each child is infected by 15 years of age.
But it is likely that the outbreak of frequent and greater, which makes life more dangerous for the most vulnerable society: children are very young so that they are not vaccinated, and people with immunodeficiency.
““There are direct consequences-health fees, long-term health effects.“
“It is also just embarrassment. It puts the United States equally with some of the most restricted resource settings in the world, and after a step with most high -income countries.”
