A second child at school -age in West texas died of a measles -related illness, a hospital spokesman confirmed on Sunday when the outbreak continued to swell.
Aaron Davis, a spokesman for the UMC health system in Lubbock, Texas, said that the child “received treatment for measles complications” and has no underlying health states. The hospital declined to say on which day the child died.
The child died on Thursday “what the child’s doctors described as measles failure failure”, confirmed the Texas Ministry of Health in the State of State of State of State of State Health Services on Sunday.
Neither the US centers for the control and prevention of diseases nor the State Ministry of Health belonged to death in their measles reports issued on Friday. Spokesman for the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services in the United States did not immediately respond to inquiries about comments on Sunday.
A child who is not vaccinated in school age died in February in Lubbock-and the first measles death in the United States for a decade. At the beginning of March, an adult in New Mexico who was not vaccinated and did not apply for medical care became the second measles death.
Nationwide, the United States has more than twice as many measles cases that it saw in 2024.
More than two months later, the outbreak from West Texas to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas is said to be spread out and reflect almost 570 people. The World Health Organization also reported cases related to Texas in Mexico. The number of cases in Texas rose between March 28 and April 4 at 81, and 16 more people were taken to the hospital. A team from the US centers for the control and prevention of diseases is on site in Texas and helps the reaction of the outbreak.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-time anti-access activist, has transmitted a raucous message about the importance of vaccination against measles and explains that it should be encouraged and at the same time sow doubts about the safety of the vaccine. The measles, mumps and rubella vaccines have been used safely for more than 60 years and are effective against measles after two doses.
The Republican US Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, a liver doctor whose coordination helped Cinch Kennedy, called for stronger news from health officials in one position on X.
“Everyone should be vaccinated! There is no treatment for measles. No use for measles,” he wrote. “Top health officers should clearly say that another child dies.”
Misors of the prevention and treatment of measles hinder a tough reaction of public health, including claims on vitamin -a nutritional supplements, which have been promoted by Kennedy and Holistic Medicine supporters despite the warnings of the doctors who should be specified under the instructions of a doctor and can be too unsafe.
Doctors in the Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, where the first measles death appeared, said that they treated fewer than 10 children for liver problems from the vitamin -a -toxicity, which they found in the case of routine aborted children with measles. Dr. Lara Johnson, Chief Medical Officer, reported that patients used vitamin A to treat and prevent the virus.
Dr. Peter Marks, the former boss of the Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief, said that the responsibility for death was with Kennedy and his employees. After disagreements with Kennedy, Marks was forced to secure vaccine from the FDA.
“This is the epitome of an absolute unnecessary death,” Markks the Associated Press said in an interview on Sunday. “These children should be vaccinated – so they prevent people from dying from measles.”
Kennedy is expected to launch a Make America Healthy tour through the southwest of the United States at the beginning of this week.
Marks also said that he had recently warned the US senators that more deaths would take place if the government had no more aggressive response to the outbreak. Kennedy was testified on Thursday before the Senate Health Committee.
Experts and local health officers expect the outbreak to take a few months, if not a year more months. In West texas, the immense majority of cases are not vaccinated and children under the age of 17.
With several states that are exposed to the outbreak of vaccine regulations-and in the nationwide decline in the vaccination rate in the childhood-sind, some worry that the measles could cost the US status to eliminate the disease.
Measles is a breath virus that can survive in the air for up to two hours. According to the CDC, up to 9 out of 10 people who are susceptible will receive the virus when they are exposed. The first shot is recommended for children aged 12 to 15 months and the second for 4 to 6 years.
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AP reporter Amanda Seitz and Matthew Perrone in Washington contributed to this report.
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