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There is a new one Measles outbreak in west -texasWith seven out of 10 cases that have so far identified that require hospitalization. Nobody was vaccinated. Because measles are so contagious and transferred by the air, there are probably more cases.
Between December 1, 2023 and January 23, 2024 there were 23 measles in California. A 2015 Expansion originally in Disneyland Infected 125 people. Other remarkable outbreaks last year took place in Minnesota, Illinois and Oregon; cases amounted to a total of 284 in the US Worldwide measles has increased by 20%.
Was a measles essentially eliminated by 2000Because there had been no continuous distribution for a year. It’s back.
That is an important consideration because federal legislators the qualifications of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Weigh as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Why are measles cases grow now?
Vaccination percentages had fallen in some areas due to the anti-vaccination sentiment. When the COVID-19 Pandemie began, the Vaccination percentage fell From 97% (2019-20) to 94.3% (2023-24) at Kindergarten. Vaccin control requests have increased rapidly, from 45,900 in 2018 to 93,000 in 2024.
Texas has recently had a more anti-regulation or independence-of-authority authority, including a exile On COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employees of private Texas companies, including hospitals, since 2023. More than 20 accounts are now approved by “Texans for vaccineous”, making it easier to refrain from vaccinations.
A vaccination percentage of 95% is needed to offer herd -immunity against measles and to prevent an individual matter from spreading. Texas researchers from the team of doctors Melissa Norton and Peter Hotez in Baylor showed the distribution of Non-medical exemptions from vaccinations Included the major metropolitan areas of Seattle and Spokane, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Phoenix, Arizona; Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah; Houston, Fort Worth, Plano and Austin, Texas; Troy, Warren and Detroit, Michigan; And Kansas City, Missouri.
Why is measles vaccination different?
For some infections, such as tetanus and human papillomavirus, if you are not vaccinated, you can harm yourself, but no terrible risk for other people. Measles, however, causes infection in Almost everyone who is exposed To it. An infected person will probably be infect 15 others (Called R15). Influenza, on the other hand, is R1.7 and Covid-19 is R3. Even the highly contagious norovirus that runs this winter is R4.2.
The other problem with measles is that children who are immunocromitated cannot receive it because it contains a living – although clearly weakened – virus. Not infants either. However, if they are exposed to someone with measles, they can get measles acutely or get a delayed brain inflammation called subacute sclerosing Panencefalitis. SSPE can influence as much as 1 in 600 babies Less than 1 year old. See for a graphic video of this Only the VAX post About children who are infected in a pediatrician by a child who is sick with measles. Two of the six children infected in the waiting room died of SSPE.
Measles also increases your sensitive to other serious infections, called Immune memory lossIt can last two to three years.
Kennedy and vaccines
Robert Kennedy Jr. Has been criticizing vaccines as unsafe. In 2019 there was an outbreak of measles in Samoa, which led to 83 deaths. Vaccination rates had fallen due to two deaths in the previous year due to incorrectly prepared injections. The region has suspended vaccinations for 10 months and visited Kennedy during this period. His journey was reportedly organized by a Samoan anti-vaccine influences. During his confirmation hearing last week, Kennedy denied that the babies had died of measles. SAMOA director-General of Health Dr. Alec Ekeroma considered Kennedy’s comments as ‘a total manufacture’.
In May 2021, Kennedy, chairman of the Children’s Health Defense, asked that the “FDA use of emergency use for existing COVID-19Gaccins and cannot approve and license.” Instead, his group pushed the use of alternative medicines – but the FDA and Merck had already determined hydroxychloroquine And dimermectin Not to be effective. He described the shots of Covid-19 as “A crime against humanity.“
In a statement entitled “America deserves better than RFK JR,” The American Public Health Association opposes Kennedy as HHS Secretary in part because he is’ a member of the ‘disinformation dozen disinzijn’ who produced 65% of the shares of anti-vaccine incorrect information on social media platforms that contributed to the distrust of it public in science. “The organization added that his explanation that” there is no vaccine that is safe and effective “and disqualified the wrong information he has recommended about vaccines that cause autism.
Other public health groups are critical in the same way. ‘Protect our careThe former HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Anne Pfrimmer, deputy director of Seiu Healthcare, counts as advisory boards, mentions some of Kennedy’s disturbing anti-vaccine complott theories, including causing vaccines autism. He also said that children get a vaccine, and later their brains disappeared. This is a Holocaust, what this does with our country. “
Another concern is that Kennedy receives reference costs for suits against the HPV vaccine of Merck (from which He earned $ 850,000 last year). This is one Ethical conflict.
Kennedy lacks basic knowledge about Medicaid and Medicare. In the past by Senator Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, Kennedy wrongly said that Medicaid was fully paid by the federal government. It is not; States and federal taxpayers Medicaid Fund.
Kennedy said He does not believe that infectious diseases pose a huge threat to human health. “He also claimed that” medical research into these diseases and vaccine investigation has created some of the worst plagues in our history “, including HIV, Spanish flu and Lyme. But as HH -Secretary he would be responsible for leading agencies that are essential for Public health, including the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.
Even if someone were to ignore his lack of medical training, a lot of doubts about the lack of managing experience or organizational leadership of Kennedy, because he would supervise 80,000+ employees.
In my more than 40 years of practice I never saw a case of measles or pertussis (whooping cough). They had largely eliminated vaccinations in children.
Yes, public health is vulnerable, such as Forbes Participant Madhukar Pai recently explained. Many professional groups are convinced that Kennedy would further feed mistrust in vaccines and science -based decision -making, which could lead to a revival of many infectious diseases and unnecessary deaths.