STUDY Bump of measles in West Texas brings an intense milestone this week, when officers reported the first measure of death in the US in a decade – a child’s school age of lubbock without beingcacated.
In the country, 164 cases of measles are reported Until Wednesday, according to centers for preventing illness and evasion. All but 5% of the cases that are unvacanced people or whose vaccination status is unknown. Texas draining, In 146 casescontains most of the national total.
The drain has quickly grown since it was first reported in the early February, changed concerns about About US dismissal measles And who is safe from infection. NOWS News News to audience questions about blasting and virus through @nbcnews Instagram broadcast channel; The answers below.
What are the steps to control a closure of a measter?
Standard response to a passenger passage is to urinate infected persons, know who they contacted and gave people vaccines in the area not their people. Anything exposed should try and be kept for symptoms up to 21 days after exposure. For non-vaccinated, accepting a measter, mumples and rubella (MMR) shot within 72 hours of exposure can prevent or reduce severity of illness.
Often, the first dose of the measles vaccine is given to infants if they are 12 to 15 months old, followed by a second of 4 to 6 years old. But during a blow, doctors can sometimes handle a dose of children as young than 6 months. Children younger than those and people who are severely immirocomised can get an antibody injection for six days of exposure to measles.
What do health agencies do to answer this? Are there any changes in the Trump administration’s response to be compared to Biden’s?
The CDC sent 2,000 doses of MMR vaccine to Texas health officials at their request, but state officials do not demand CDC to send experts to help the ground. Kush Naia, a White House spokesman, says the White House coordinated with Texas health authorities and monitoring the situation.
CDC on Friday refers to Nals Nalang a statement of x From Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Service of Man. Kennedy said the agency gave the lab support virus lab and talked to public health officials in the affected areas. Those are standard response measures.
Kennedy also noticed a CDC’s CDC website change: It now says that Vitamin A can be administered to infants and children with measles under the management of health care. Kennedy, who has a history of anti-bakine activators and spread the wrong information about the measles vaccine, previously suggested that medicine is for measles is “chicken broth and vitamin A.”
In a news conference with Lubbock County health officials on Friday, Ron Cook, a professor of Texas Tech University Health Science Center, though the studies of vitamin A and measles showed some diseases, long doses could be dangerous.
“Most people have a normal vitamin on a level, and we do not have a nation in the third world,” he said.
Can measles spread like covid?
Steps are more reasonable than Covid – as well as all contagious diseases, including ebola and smallpox. If a person gets measles, they can cover it up to 9 of the 10 people around them if people are not vaccinated.
An infected person passes the measles by coughing, sneezing, speaking or breathing. . People can also spread the virus before the symptoms start – a person who has been infected with less than four days before seeing the signature of the disease and four days.
Is there a particular age group affected?
The measles are more dangerous for kids under age 5 for two reasons: First, children in this group can still have no conference. Second, their immune systems are not often developed enough to fight an infection, which they can damage severe complications such as pneumonia and bragging.
Pregnant people and other weak resistant resistance to rapidly Complications from measlesespecially if they do not have beencinated. The infection of a pregnant person can lead to an unborn birth or a child with a low-weighted weight.
What would it have to get measles? How fatal is this?
The steps usually start a long fever, followed by cough, runny nose and pink or watery eyes. One of the signs of disease – white areas of the contents of the cheeks near the molar – usually shows about two to three days after the symptoms begin. Then a blotchy rash in the flat, red spot, as well as the nature of the disease, destroyed between the days three and five.
Almost 1 to 3 from each 1,000 children with measles will die from respiration for breathing and neurological, according to CDC.
“We can provide oxygen if they have pneumonia, or antibiotics, but if they go to the brain, because we say we have no good ways to treat the Eugene Appleboum College of Pharmaum and Health Science.
How compared to useles conditions in other countries?
The US has eliminated the 2000 measles, which means that the disease is no longer always present, even if there are sometimes occasional blasts. Over 80 other countries as well achieved that state of eliminationBut the disease is usually in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Most US measles cases are introduced from other countries, but reducing vaccination rates allow the virus to spread by viruses. US Kindergartners’ about receiving two MMR vaccine doses dropped from 95% of the 2019-20 school year Less than 93% of year schooling at 2023-24. Status to eliminate measles requires immunization coverage to exceed 95%.
US records 285 previous year’s measurement cases – the highest number since 2019, according to CDC data – and is on track for more years.
With Texas who saw a major blow now, “We have a different one who has fallen from our intention to eliminate,” Kilgore said.
Is the measles vaccine safe? How effective are you?
The MMR vaccine available in the US has since 1971 (even about measles first distributed as a principle alone in 1968). Two shots are 97% effective against measles and usually offers lifelong protection.
The vaccine shows that more secure. Most people have no effect, even if some people can experience a fever, rash or joint pain and tightly after. Despite the wrong info that began in the 1990s, the MMR vaccine was not linked to Autism. That wrong idea from a paper returned, and whose writer, Andrew Wetfield, lost his medical license.
I am completely vaccinated – should I worry or get a booster?
Infections of measles of vaccinated people are rare. Up to 3 of 100 fully immunized people can have infection of collapse, with gentleness. For the reason, doctors generally do not recommend additional booster doses.
“If a person is 6 years and above receives their two doses, they must resist,” Dr. Carla Garcia Carreno, Director for the manner of the way. However, adults who received the vaccine before 1968 may choose to obtain an additional dose, he added, because formation before is not as effective as one.
“All adults were born before 1957, because the measles were widespread in that time, it could be considered resistant,” he added.
The people who are unsure if they are immunized can request a record of vaccination from their state health department or arrival clinics they have visited as a child, which can do it in the file. If there is doubt, talk to your health care provider about the possibility of a blood test to check for measles antibodies.
Does humility of the vaccines lead to a rise in other childhood diseases in addition to measles?
Doctors worry that vaccine vaccination can allow many childhood diseases to improve. More than 30 states were found to be reduced by vaccination vaccinations for polio, varicella and diphthheria, tetusus and pertusus during the school year. Last year, the US saw the increase In cases of pertussis.
“It’s more alarming trends that keep our Herd Resunit,” Dr. Syra Madad, an epidemiologist and partner of Harvard Beer Center for Science and International Affairs. “Now it’s measles. Tomorrow it can be pertussis. The next day it can be another painful vaccine.”
