Odra erupts in Texas and Fresh Mexico, almost 100 people

The explosions of the Oder in some parts of Texas and Fresh Mexico fell ill with almost 100 people, according to state health officials, who warned that the number of cases was to raise.

The explosion is spreading in the South Plains region in Texas since the end of January Texas Department of State Health Services He said on Friday. Measles Vaccination indicators In the region they remain well below federal purposes.

On Friday, the department confirmed 90 cases of measles, with at least 77 children. The department said that sixteen people were hospitalized.

Cases appear among the growing fears of public health experts regarding the decrease in vaccination and confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outstanding vaccine skeptic as the Secretary of Health of the Nation.

Mr. Kennedy, who quoted the disputed research on the effects of side vaccines, swore to study childhood vaccines.

In Texas, most cases concentrated in Gaines, an agricultural area near the border with Fresh Mexico. In just five of 90 cases there were patients vaccinated against measles. The department said that the rest was not fractured or had an unknown vaccination status.

. Said the Health Department in Nowy Mexico It was from Thursday that nine cases of measles in Lea, which shares the border with the Employment region in Texas, identified. The faculty said that four were infected with children.

The State Department of Texas State Health Services said he was cooperating with local health departments to examine the explosion. Local health departments have expanded the vaccination clinics and testing of centers to try to stop the cases.

At seminola in Gaines, free vaccination in Gaines was offered, as well as in Lea, Nm

Children must receive a vaccine against measles, pigs and rubella to attend public schools in Texas, although exemptions can be awarded for “reasons for conscience”. But Gaines had one of the highest release rates in the country last year Over 13 percent According to state data, K-12 students exempt from receiving the vaccine.

The vaccination indicator in kindergarten students who received the MMR vaccine last year was 82 percent, about 10 points lower than the state average for public schools in Texas. . Disease control and prevention centers He said that when over 95 percent of people in the community are vaccinated, most people would be protected by immunity.

Odra explosions, one of the most contagious diseases known to people, appeared in every region of the world. This also applies to the United States, where the disease has once been eliminated.

There were 285 in total matters According to CDC in the United States in over 30 states in 2024.

The disease can seriously walk people or be fatal. About one out of five unvaccinated people who infect the Odra, ends hospitalized, Cdc said.

National vaccination indicators for the Oder have already dropped since the Covid-19 pandemic began in 2020 and last year there were less than 93 percent.