Texas Official Warns Against ‘Measles Parties’ Amid Growing Outbreak

A health authority in Texas is warning against “Ham parties” Outbreak Grown At least 146 cases20 people admitted to the hospital and An endless school-year-old child has diedThe This outbreak is mainly in the unbelievable children.

At a press briefing organized by Lubbak City on Friday, Ron Cook, chief health officer at the Texas Tech University Health Science Center in Lubak, took a warning for Texans in his opening statement.

“What I want to hear is: Hum’s parties are not good because what can happen is – we can’t predict who will work badly at Ham, to be hospitalized, to get pneumonia or encephalitis, or to move away from it,” said Cook. “So it is a ham party to think a foolish idea. The best thing to do is to make sure you have been given a good vaccine. “

Lubak sits about 90 miles north -west from the center of the outbreak of the outbreak In the County of GainsWhich is one of the minimum vaccinations in the state. It recorded 98 out of 146 of outbreaks. Although Lubak has reported only two of the 66 cases, patients have been treated from anywhere else. The first two cases of this outbreak include children who died earlier this week due to infection, who was not a resident of Lubak.

It is unclear whether any ham groups are happening or elsewhere. “It was mostly … Social Media Talk,” Cook said in response to a follow-up question of ARS. He noted that the hum teams and chickenpox teams were more common practices a few decades ago before vaccines were available for both diseases. But he again warned about the dangers. “Please don’t do it. It’s just foolish; it’s playing Rulet,” he said.

Cook, along with Catherine Wales, director of Lubbock’s public health, said they did not monitor the outbreak, which now expanded nine counties in Texas, many of which have lower vaccination rates. “This outbreak is about to increase,” Wales said a reporter refused to predict how high the final case could be after a few hundred possibilities.

So far, 116 out of 146 is under 18, 46 46 or younger. Only five of the 146 were vaccinated with at least one dose of ham, mamps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

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In a further positive note, Wales says the outbreak seems to have suppressed some vaccine-hesitant parents for vaccinating their children. Yesterday, Lubbke came to the city clinic for more than 50 children ham vaccines. Eleven of these children had vaccine discounts, which means their parents had previously passed the state process to escape their child from taking a routine childhood vaccine for school. “Which is really a good sign; That means our message is coming out of there, “Wales said.

In the end of January, the outbreak of the outbreak still came from the state and local authorities exclusively. The Centers of Disease Control and Resistance Carefully Published A short statement At the end of Thursday, which was not shipped through the agency’s press distribution list. However, it has noted that “vaccine ham remains the best defense against the infection of Ham.”

At a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, US Health Secretary and Opposition Vaccin’s Advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. provided a variety of misinformation by providing a variety of misinformation. Kennedy downed the outbreak, falsely claimed that “this is not unusual.” In fact, this is an unusual year for Ham in the United States. Epidemiologist Caitlin Jaitelina mentioned on Blusky as the number of US ham cases already already Has exceeded the total case calculation from eight in the previous 15 yearsThe And this is just February.