{"id":10417,"date":"2025-03-04T19:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T19:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/measles-outbreak-continues-to-spread-in-west-texas\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T19:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T19:59:39","slug":"measles-outbreak-continues-to-spread-in-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/measles-outbreak-continues-to-spread-in-west-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles Outbreak Continues to Spread in West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A measles outbreak that has spread over a swath of West Texas, killing one child, shows no signs of slowing, according to data announced on Tuesday by state health officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Texas Department of Health reported that since late January, nearly 160 people have contracted measles \u2014 20 more cases than reported on Friday \u2014 and 22 have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Tuesday that it would <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/04\/us\/politics\/cdc-measles-outbreak.html?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">send some of its \u201cdisease detectives\u201d to Texas<\/a>, one of the first steps the new administration has taken to help manage the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The news comes amid criticism of federal officials for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/02\/health\/measles-vaccination-texas-kennedy.html\" title=\"\">underplaying the need for immunizations with the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine<\/a>, one of the most important tools in quelling an outbreak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary and a prominent vaccine skeptic, published an opinion piece on Sunday night acknowledging that vaccines protect children from measles and urged parents to talk with their doctors \u201cto understand their options to get the M.M.R. vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe decision to vaccinate is a personal one,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6369595673112\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a prerecorded interview that aired on Fox News on Tuesday<\/a>, Mr. Kennedy said that the federal government was shipping doses of vitamin A to Gaines County, in West Texas, and helping to arrange ambulance rides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">H.H.S. previously said officials were shipping doses of the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, but the health secretary did not mention vaccination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Doctors had seen \u201cvery, very good results,\u201d Mr. Kennedy claimed, by treating measles cases in Texas with a steroid, budesonide; an antibiotic called clarithromycin; and cod liver oil, which he said had high levels of vitamin A and vitamin D.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While physicians sometimes <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/publications.aap.org\/aapnews\/news\/31490\/AAP-leaders-combating-misinformation-amid-measles?searchresult=1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">administer doses of vitamin A<\/a> to treat children with severe measles cases, cod liver oil is \u201cby no means\u201d an evidence-based treatment, said Dr. Sean O\u2019Leary, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. O\u2019Leary added that he had never heard of a physician using the supplement against measles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In comments that seemed to be about conventional safeguards against measles, Mr. Kennedy said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to be honest with the American people for the first time in history about what actually \u2014 about all of the tests and all of the studies, about what we know, what we don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to tell them, and that\u2019s going to anger some people who want an ideological approach to public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The dimensions of the current outbreak are unclear. The official case number in the Texas outbreak is most likely an undercount, said Katherine Wells, the director of public health in Lubbock, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The outbreak has largely spread within a community of Mennonites in Gaines County, who historically have had lower vaccination rates and often avoid interacting with the health care system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Wells said she believed many of those families did not seek medical attention for measles and have not been accounted for in the state\u2019s official numbers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think it\u2019s probably in the hundreds,\u201d she said. \u201cWe know that some of their schools were closed with lots of sick children, but we don\u2019t know who those children were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, roughly 82 percent of the county\u2019s kindergarten population had received the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella. Experts say that at least 95 percent of people in a community must be vaccinated in order to stave off outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Declining vaccination rates in the United States have left growing pockets of vulnerable children, making it more likely that an outbreak will jump from one unvaccinated group to another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/01\/13\/upshot\/vaccination-rates.html\" title=\"\">93 percent of kindergarten students<\/a> nationwide had received the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella in the 2023-24 school year, down from 95 percent before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019ve benefited greatly as Americans by the fact that these communities have been spaced out,\u201d said Michael Mina, formerly an epidemiologist at Harvard and now chief medical officer at eMed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA case in one of them can ignite cases in all of them, because you\u2019re no longer benefiting from this space,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Texas, measles cases have been confirmed in nine counties, many of which have vaccination rates below federal recommendations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">About 80 percent of kindergarten students in one of the public school districts in Terry County, which neighbors Gaines, were vaccinated for measles, according to recent state data. That county reported 22 cases of measles Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A county in New Mexico that borders Gaines County has reported nine measles cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While most measles cases resolve in a few weeks, in rare cases the virus can cause pneumonia, making it difficult for patients, especially children, to get oxygen into their lungs, or brain swelling, which can lead to blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">About one in five people who catch measles will be hospitalized, according to the C.D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The virus also weakens the immune system in the long term, making its host more susceptible to future infections. A 2015 study found that before the M.M.R. vaccine was widely available, measles may have been responsible for up to half of all infectious disease deaths in children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Sheryl Gay Stolberg<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/04\/health\/texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy.html\">Source link 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