As the Odra, Kennedy spreads, such as cod liver oil

As the Odra explosion in West Texas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary for Health and Human Services, on Tuesday, he cheered on several unconventional treatments, including cod liver oil, but he did not call Americans to vaccinations again.

IN The registered interview, which was broadcast in Fox NewsMr. Kennedy said that the federal government was a shipping of vitamin A doses for Gaines, epicenter of the explosion, and helped organize an ambulance rides.

HHS officials have previously said that they were sending doses against Odomom-Mumps-Rabella to Texas, but Mr. Kennedy did not discuss vaccinations.

Kennedy stated that Texas doctors saw “very, very good results,” treating measles with steroid, budesonide; Antibiotic called clarithromycin; And cod liver oil, which, as he said, had high levels of vitamin A and vitamin D.

While doctors sometimes Give doses of vitamin A Dr. Sean O’Leary, chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee for infectious diseases, said that to treat children with powerful liver oil, “in no case” treatment based on evidence.

Dr. O’Leary added that he never heard about the doctor using the Odra supplement.

In the comments that seemed to refer to conventional measures against the Oder, Mr. Kennedy said: “For the first time in history we will be candid with the American nation about all tests and all research, about what we know, what we do not know.”

“We will tell them and this will anger people who want an ideological approach to public health.”

In addition, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Tuesday that it would send some “diseases detectives” to Texas to facilitate strengthen efforts to restore the virus.

The explosion has no signs of slowdown, in accordance with the data published on Tuesday by health officials.

The Health Department in Texas announced that from the end of January almost 160 people have contracted the Oder – 20 more cases than reported on Friday – and 22 were hospitalized.

The message appears among the criticism of federal officials for shortcoming the need for vaccination with a vaccine against measles-mumps-rabella, one of the most vital tools in the suppression of the explosion.

The dimensions of the explosion, which has already killed one child, are unclear. Katherine Wells, Public Health Director at Lubbock in Texas.

The explosion has largely spread in the Mennonite community in Gainas, who historically had lower vaccination indicators and often avoid interaction with the healthcare system.

Mrs. Wells said that she believes that many of these families did not seek medical facilitate for the Oder and were not included in the official numbers of state.

“I think it’s probably in hundreds,” she said. “We know that some of their schools were closed with many infirmed children, but we don’t know who these children were.”

Last year, about 82 percent of the population of the Kindergarten of the County received the Odra vaccine. Experts say that at least 95 percent of people in the community must be vaccinated to stop the epidemics.

Falling vaccination indicators in the United States have left the growing pockets of sensitive children, which will augment the likelihood that the epidemic jumps from one unvaccinated group to another.

Only 93 percent of kindergarten students throughout the country received a vaccine for measles, pigs and rubella in the school year in 2023–24, compared to 95 percent before Pandemia.

“We used it as Americans from the fact that these communities were arranged,” said Michael Mina, a vaccine expert and a former professor of epidemiology at Harvard Th Chan School of Public Health.

“A case in one of them can ignite cases in all of them, because you no longer apply this space,” he said.

In Texas, the cases of measles have been confirmed in nine poviats, many of which have vaccination indicators below federal recommendations.

According to state data, approximately 80 percent of kindergarten students in one of the public school districts in Terry, which the neighbors of Gaines, were vaccinated for the Oder. 22 cases of measles on Tuesday reported in this unit.

Nine cases of measles reported the unit on Nowy Mexico, which borders on Gaines.

While most of the measles disappear in a few weeks, in uncommon cases the virus can cause pneumonia, making it hard for patients, especially children, to introduce oxygen into the lungs or brain swelling, which can lead to blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities.

According to CDC, about one in five people who catch measles will be hospitalized

The virus also weakens the immune system in the long term, thanks to which his host is more susceptible to future infections. The 2015 study showed that before the widely available MMR vaccine, the Odra could be responsible for half of all deaths of infectious diseases in children.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg reporting brought.