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The deteriorating epidemic of the Odra has rooted in Texas, disgusting two dozen and hospitalization nine at the western end of the state, where childhood vaccination indicators have fallen in recent years.

Since Tuesday, 22 children and two adults were infected, all of which were not fractured, with local health officials said. The explosion appears when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an avid criticism of childhood vaccines, was nominated for another health secretary in the country, causing that public health experts are worried that a similar raise in diseases that can be avoided will be more repeated.

“There is an impression that it will be more and more common,” said Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an expert on infectious diseases at the Duke University.

The explosion of Texas has so far been circumscribed to the inhabitants of Gaines, which borders with Up-to-date Mexico and has about 20,000 inhabitants. According to state data, last year, 82 percent of kindergarten students received a vaccine against measles, pigs and rubella. This number is about 10 percentage points lower than the average vaccination rate at public schools in Texas and well below the federal purpose of 95 percent for vaccinations from the sack.

Vaccination indicators are falling throughout the country from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, and now they are below 93 percent. Estimated 280,000 preschoolers According to federal data in the United States in the United States, there is no MMR vaccine documentation.

Public schools in Texas require children to receive some vaccines, including MMR shot, but parents may apply for release for “reasons of conscience”, including religious beliefs.

Last year, Over 13 percent According to the state of the state of the Health Department, K-12 students in the Gaines Fountain received a vaccine exemption. This is one of the highest rates in the state.

Lara Anton, a spokeswoman for the Health Department in Texas, said that matters focused in the “more island” community in the county, among people who attend the church and private schools together. Anton also said that many children are also learning home.

Local Health Departments founded a journey of vaccination clinics in a seminole, a city in the center of Gaines, known from the enormous Mennonite community. Until now they were well participating, said Mrs. Anton.

The most common side effects of measles – high fever and plastic red rash – they will usually solve on their own within a few weeks. However, stern complications, including pneumonia and brain edema, are possible, especially for children under 5 years of age.

According to about one out of five unvaccinated people who are infecting the Odra, is hospitalized in accordance with Disease control and prevention centers. Mrs. Anton said that all nine hospitalized patients were school -age children and that many of them spent time in the intensive care unit.

“It’s a stern illness,” she said. “We are trying to impress the community that you must now take steps to protect yourself.”

Health officials warned that cases would probably appear in nearby communities because of the “highly contagious nature of this disease.”

The Health Department of Nowy Mexico announced this week that a teenager who lived in the Fountain bordering Texas Tested positively on the OderAlthough the child did not have a known exposure to the explosion of Gainas.