The second death of Texas West was confirmed. Adults who have not been vaccinated have been tested for viruses beyond the New Mexican border.
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Two people died when measles occurred in West Texas and New Mexico.
Thursday, New Mexican health officials confirmed the death of an adult who had not been vaccinated for measles. The first death was the school age of Texas County last week.
The news of the second death is worrying that the federal doctor’s message about the outbreak is more focused on treatments such as vitamin A than vaccinations, and even if some of these treatments spread online.
These concerns are the Minister of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. There was concern about the recent opinion that Kennedy’s recently announced FOX NEWS editorials mentioned that measles increased. Posted on the HHS website.
Kennedy mentioned the value of vaccination of community immunity and said, “Vaccination decision is a personal decision.” He emphasized measles treatment by saying that vitamin A could “dramatically” the death of disease. at Interview with Fox News On Tuesday, he said that Texas doctors provided steroids and cod liver oil to measles patients and “very good results.”
In his editing, he said that good nutrition was “the best defense against most chronic and infectious diseases.”
The emphasis on nutrition and vitamin A to treat measles is associated with some infectious diseases.
“The mention of Daegu liver oil and ARE is distracted by people in need of a single message, which is to increase the vaccination rate.” Dr. Amesh Adalja, JOHNS HOPKINS Center for Health Security Penetian doctor and senior scholar.
Vitamin A can play an important role in preventing severe diseases, but the discussions on vitamins do not replace the fact that measles are a preventable disease, and in fact, the way to deal with measles is to vaccinate people against measles. Dr. Adam Ratner, Member of the Pediatric Academy of Pediatrics.
Kennedy acknowledged that measles are highly contagious and especially for people who are not vaccinated. He said the vaccine protects individual children from measles, but also protects people who cannot be vaccinated. But he did not encourage people to vaccinate their children. This is a key part of public health response during the outbreak.
When measles occurred in the United States in 2019, Alex Azar Health Secretary issued a statement that strongly supported warnings about the risk of vaccination and immaturity.
A study conducted in low -income and intermediate income countries decades ago in vitamin A says that vitamins can reduce the risk of serious diseases and deaths in children with malnutrition and vitamin deficiency.
Even if there is no existing deficiency, measles may be depleted of the body’s vitamin A store. World Health Organization And the American Pediatrics Academy is a good idea to provide two vitamin A for children with diseases. Especially if you are hospitalized if you are sick.
But Ratner emphasizes that vitamin A is not. Prevent measles.
The wrong idea that circulates online is that giving a lot of children for a long time can prevent measles. He says that it is not only wrong, but it can be quite dangerous.
“Vitamin A can be accumulated in the body,” he said. There may be toxicity between “liver damage, fatigue, hair loss and headaches.” It can have an undesired effect on your child. “Ratner is an expert in pediatric infectious diseases in New York City, and he said similar wrong information about vitamin A created a round during the reconstruction of the city in 2019.
Scott Weaver, Human infection and immune research institute At the University of Texas University, people think that people can see and think about vitamin bottles.“
“People think that vitamin A or other nutrition replaces vaccinations to prevent infection and spread.”
Kennedy said in an interview with Texas in an interview with Texas that “very good results.” The processing containing steroids and cod liver oil is mixed. NPR did not confirm the use of Daegu liver oil in Texas, but Adalja said, “There is no data that COD liver oil will have some advantages in measles,” Adalja said.
Daegu liver oil is so high vitamin A, so Ratner is worried that parents can give too much to their children. It is potentially toxic.
ADALJA would have wanted to emphasize that the vaccine was the best defense against measles.
“There is no need to think about treatment because prevention is always better than treatment,” he says.
