Officials say that an unvaccinated child is dying measles in Texas

The child died from the Odra in Western Texas, the first known death due to the outbreak of the disease, which spreads in the state and in the neighboring Recent Mexico, on Wednesday officials gave.

Health officials in Lubbock and Texas The Department of Health Service said in a statement that the patient was a school -like child who died in the last 24 hours.

Officials did not publish further information, but said that the press conference was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at the Covenant Medical Center in orbock.

At least 124 cases of measles have been identified in Texas since the end of January, mainly among children and teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination was unknown, health officials in Texas say. Eighteen was hospitalized.

Odra is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can endanger life for anyone who is not protected from the virus.

Doctors say that the best way to protect against the disease are two doses of vaccine, which is usually given to children as a combination of measles-mumps-rabella or MMR, vaccines. According to health officials, Texas Health two doses of MMR vaccine prevent more than 97 percent of the measles infection.

The South Plains region in Texas, where the explosion spread, has Vaccination indicators This is a delay significantly with federal purposes.

Recent Mexico also has he reported an explosionWith nine cases in Lea, in the south -eastern part of the state, on the border with Texas. According to Robert Nott, spokesman for the Health Department in Nowy Mexico in Nowy Mexico in Nowy Mexico in Nowy Mexico in Nowy Mexico in Nowy Mexico in Nowy Mexico in Nowy Mexico in Nowy Mexico in Nowy Mexico in Nowy Mexico in Nowy Mexico, Recent Mexico in Recent Mexico there are children. He said that none of the cases in Nowy Mexico led to hospitalization.

The explosion appears among the growing problems 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.

Odra can be transferred when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes. Infected people will start to have symptoms within a week or two after exposure. Early symptoms include high fever, cough, runny nose and red, watery eyes. Within a few days, the distributed rash explodes as flat, red spots on the face, and then spread down the neck and trunk to the rest of the body.

Texas Health officials organized vaccination clinics and encourage people to get a MMR vaccine.