RFK Jr. heads to West Texas, where a second child has died from measles-related causes as outbreak nears 500 cases

US Health Minister Robert F. traveled. Kennedy Junior to West Texas on Sunday after the death of a second unacceptable child at the age of school due to measles.

Before a tour “Make America healthy again” across the southwest of the United States, Kennedy said on a social media position that he was in Gen’s province to calm families who had to bury two young children who died. Seminole is the measles outbreak center that began in late January and continues to swell, with nearly 500 cases in Texas alone.

He said he was also working with Texas health officials “to control the outbreak of measles.”

On Sunday, health services in Texas said in a press statement that the child had no basic health conditions, and he died on Thursday from “what the child’s doctors described as failure in the pulmonary measles.” Aaron Davis, spokesperson for the UMC health system in Lubuk, said that the child “is receiving treatment for measles complications while entering the hospital.”

This is the third death associated with measles associated with this fascism. There was another school in Texas and the other was an adult in New Mexico. None of them was vaccinated.

Kennedy, a lawyer -in -law, resisted before going up to the role of senior Minister of Health in the country earlier this year, urged the wide vaccines because the outbreak of measles has worsened under his watch.

Kennedy said in a long statement posted on X. The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine.

Kennedy added that the centers of the American centers to combat and prevent them from “re -published”, although the country’s public health agency has never sponsored it during the increasing crisis. The Center for Disease Control, nor the Ministry of Health, did not include the death in the measles reports issued on Friday, but added it to their charges on Sunday.

On the national level, the United States has more than twice the number of measles I saw in 2024.

More than two months later, West Texas is believed to have spread to New Mexico, Aklahoma and Kandas, which destroyed nearly 570 people. The World Health Organization has also reported Texas -related cases in Mexico. The number of cases in Texas increased by 81 between March 28 and April 4, and another 16 people were taken to the hospital.

The American senator for Senator Bill Cassidy called for Louisiana, the liver doctor whose vote asserted Cinch Kennedy, on Sunday to strong messages from health officials in a publication on X.

“Everyone must be vaccinated! There is no cure for a group. There is no benefit to get measles,” Books. “Senior health officials must say unambiguously with/4 another child dies.”

A CDC spokesman pointed to the effectiveness of the measles vaccine on Sunday but stopped inviting people to get it.

Exit from the public health correspondence for a long time about vaccination, the decision spokesman described the decision as a “personal decision” and said that people should speak to their doctor and “they must be informed of the risks and potential benefits associated with vaccines.”

The wrong information on how to prevent measles and its treatment hinder a strong response to public health, including allegations related to vitamins of nutritional supplements that Kennedy supporters and comprehensive medicine supporters despite doctors warning that it should be submitted under the doctor’s orders and that it could be dangerous.

Doctors at Al -Ahd Hospital in Children in Lubok, where the death of the first measles occurred, said that they dealt with less than 10 children of liver issues from the vitamin A toxicity, which when they were performed routine laboratory tests on children with a fertilized deficient deficiency of measles. Dr. Lara Johnson, chief medical official, said patients reported the use of vitamin A to treat and prevent the virus.

Dr. Peter Marx, a former head of the Food and Drug Administration, said that the responsibility for death is with Kennedy and his employees. Marx was forced to leave the FDA after disputes with Kennedy over the safety of the vaccine.

“This is an example of absolute death,” Marx told Associated Press in an interview on Sunday. “These children should be vaccinated – so people prevent death from measles.”

Marx also said that he recently warned American Senators that more deaths would happen if the administration has not installed an aggressive response to the outbreak of the disease. Kennedy was summoned to testify before the Senate Health Committee on Thursday.

Experts and local health officials expect that the disease will continue for several months, if not general. In West Texas, the vast majority of cases are in non -fortified people and children under the age of 17.

With the presence of many countries facing outbreaks of vents-and decreased childhood vaccination rates at the country level-some concern that measles may cost the United States and put it as getting rid of the disease.

Measles are the respiratory virus that can remain in the air for up to two hours. Up to 9 out of 10 people, they will get the virus if exposed, according to the Center for Disease Control. The first shot is recommended for children between the ages of 12 and 15 months, and the second for ages of 4 to 6 years.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

2025-04-06 20:29:00