Texas’s onset of measles is a sign of slowing, but other states are seeing more cases, and health officials are warning their qualifications as the United States continues to experience high measles due to reduced vaccination rates.
A few days have passed since the person in Texas has been tested positively, and the city’s children’s hospital has no known measles in hospitals and cares for children in nearby Gainz County.
“We are really carefully optimistic.
She said that it would take 42 days without a new measles to declare that the outbreak of the community was over, she said, she said she was not out of the forest yet.
Wastewater plural Baylor College of Medicine’s molecular virus and microbiology professor Anthony virus and microbiology professors, which monitors team monitoring wastewater pathogens in 15 cities across Texas, can cause infections in El PASO and LubBock. Said.
But this does not mean that the risk has passed. Wells and Maresso warned not to present momentum for deadly diseases.
Wells said, “We are still seeing measles in Elfaso, we are seeing measles in other states in the United States.
Texas presentation A total of 728 cases this year. A total of 94 students were admitted to Texas and two school grades died.
The onset of West Texas is also spreading in other states. New Mexico management presentation On Thursday, Tali increased to 76 cases, and in March, the death of adults was actually caused by measles.
There was 58 cases In Kansas 17 cases In addition to other states in Oklahoma.
The United States currently has a total of 1,024 confirmed measles, which is why 2025 First year 2 years It’s already about measles since the virus was removed from the United States in 2000.
Steam can be lost in Texas West Texas. Successful This is because many people who have not been vaccinated and have not been vaccinated are now infected.
Although children have experienced many incidents 2/3 EL PASO is one of the adults. Officials recommend that anyone in the onset area is not convinced of vaccination.
But Robert F Kennedy JR, head of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (HHS), repeatedly spread the wrong information about measles vaccines.
Connecticut’s Democratic Senator Chris Murphy told Kennedy at a hearing on the HHS budget on May 14.
Murphy said, “The vaccine cried very quickly, saying that he went to Dr. Phil Show that the measles vaccine did not completely test safety.
Kennedy said, “It’s all true.
Murphy replied:
Kennedy said, “Of course it’s true.
Such statements undermine the public’s trust in the vaccine at an important time, experts said.
WELLS and MARESSO said that Wells and Maresso fell less than 95% for the community immunity (also known as an unreasonable immunity).
“In this case, the easiest thing is to start an educational campaign to close the vaccine gap.” So effective. “
“What we learned here is that there are many communities with low vaccination rates across the United States,” Wells said.
Summer tends to have a high seasons for travel, and travelers can import measles from states or countries that occur in such a dangerous community, Wells said.
Wells said, “We see a lot of sports in the summer.” Therefore, we see you traveling internationally as a place where many people can have a unique measles.
Wastewater monitoring Early warning mark Innocation, especially in the low vaccination rate.
The Texas wastewater monitoring was funded by the State Council through the Texas Infectious Disease Public Health Research Institute (TEPHI), and it was made of “CDC’s Texas version” during the Covid Pandemic period, Maresso said.
“We saw a signal of the measles of wastewater before it occurred in Texas or actually became a headline worldwide.
“If we are looking at the early stages of outbreak, it provides us with a lead time that can warn people in public health.
Wells said local leaders should prepare for measles.
“Doctors, schools, nursery, measles, and rashes look like, people should pay attention to it.”
Public health officials also need to understand logistics, such as transporting test abilities and samples to the laboratory.
Wells said, “You are ready and it’s before your heart -not sitting in a textbook with dusty textbooks.” Wells said.
But all that task requires funds. The Public Health Department often worked on the budget of shoelaces, but the Trump administration made funding much more unstable.
“There was a claw of Covid funds that can be used by the Ministry of Health,” WELLS said, “It is more difficult to follow exactly what’s going on with other federal funds for public health,” Wells pointed out.
“I am worried. It is very important to have a local public health department that can respond to measles and the next outbreak.”
