Service ServeCy Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Wednesday appears to be serious the seriousness of West Texas Enforcement killing a school age child.
The death of the child, the first from the disease of a decade in the United States, prefers Katherine Wells, Director of Public Department in Lubbock, Texas. The child is not vaccinated against measles.
The blast turns out to be at least 124 people – most children – in Rural West Texas.
“We followed the steppe epidemic every day,” Kennedy said to a meeting at the Cabinet of President Donald Trump at the White House. “Indeed, there are four steps in this year. In this country last year there was 16. So, not unusual. We have measles of measles every year.”
Kennedy also said two people died in the blast and that people who were hospitalized became “primarily for quarantine.”
Wells, in Lubbock Health Department, and another city spokesman said there was only a death in Texas so far. They say they have confirmed it to state health authorities after Kennedy’s comments on Wednesday.
If there is a second death, the city spokesman said, “We know about it.”
Andrew Nixon, a HHS spokesman of the HHS, does not directly argue the secretary comments but an email tells that the CDC is aware of the death of a child.
Lara Johnson, a pediatrician and the chief medicine officer in the Hospital of Lubbock covenant, said a problem when hospitalized patients with supported oxygen.
“We cannot reach patients for quarantine purposes,” says Johnson.
He added that his team cares for “about 20” children with measles so far. Many patients need intensive care. There is no one in hospital immunized against measles.
the Texas Health Services Reported 18 hospitalizations so far, but the number appears to be crushed, he said.
Outbreak is limited to Texas parts that put in New Mexico, reporting nine Includes Tipdas. Texas health officials work to see if cases are connected.
Not clear how to blast from outbreak.
The centers for preventing disease and avoidance and the Texas Department of State Health Services increased by East East in Earth Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia.
None of the samples with that linked to the vaccine.
The death of Texas is the first DEATES death reported in the US since 2015, if a The woman is dead after an exposure to a health clinic. the Last time a child dies in measles In the US 22 years ago, in 2003, according to CDC.
The measures considered abolished in the US in 2000, the CDC said, due to widespread use of measles-Murlella vaccine.
Two doses of shot are 97% effective in disease control, and most US children get it as recommended by CDC: one more age 5.
But as Vaccination vaccination increases over timeThe little kids take their shots. The number of children with Vaccine exceptions reached a long time In 2023, the CDC said, 3% of children enter kindergarten.
In County Earnings, Texas, the epicenter of the current blast, vaccine vacation is almost 18% for the school year, according to Department of Health Department.
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