Robert F Kennedy Junior, an active against vaccination, is now at the United States Centers to control and prevent diseases, and other public health agencies.Credit: Al Drao/Bloomberg/Getty
With a deadly measles outbreak center about 120 km away, Catherine Wales is trying to protect her hometown from the very gastrointestinal virus. yet, More than 250 people were ill in the disease in Texasand Oklala and New MexicoThe injured children who need critical care are often brought to the Children’s Hospital in Lubok, Texas, where Wales is the director of public health. Each injured child brings them the ability to spread the disease to the city’s residents.
As a result, Wales was scrambling to expand the city vaccine clinics and print bulletins around the measles for distribution in medical practices and day care centers. “It is measles 24-7,” she says. “I am trying not to wear our employees yet. This will be a long distance.”
It is a scene that some researchers in the public health in the United States fear will become more common if low government support leads to an increase in infectious diseases that the vaccine cannot rarely see doctors in the country, such as measles, the three and measles. Robert F. Kennedy, an anti-Qazi Anti-Own Lawyer, the American Public Health System, who was already struggling to recover lost confidence and raise vaccination rates after the Covid-19 pandemic. If vaccination rates continue to decrease, the intermittent infections that were imported from the outside can provoke a continuous local fire.
“It is quite clear: once you retract vaccination support, you will have lower rates,” says Lauren Gardner, the engineer who designs infectious diseases at Jones Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. “It is very dangerous.”
Viral return
The measles were announced from the United States in 2000, but separate outbreaks are still taking place when the unjust travelers bring the virus from the outside. The outbreak of this year proved a fatal: In February, he became an uncomfortable and healthy young man in Texas, the first person in a decade of measles in the United States. Officials evaluate the death of other potential measles in New Mexico.
At least 95 % of the population against measles must be vaccinated to achieve the herd immunity, as the population of enough population is fortified, the disease will not spread. In the United States, the level decreased lower than that, to 93 % during the Covid-19s, and has not yet recovered. Ashley Gromes, a social epidemic scientist at Rand, a research tank in Santa Monica, California, says measles is one of the most infectious human diseases, which means that even a slight decrease in the coverage of the vaccine can make a big difference.
Public health researchers are concerned that officials in the administration of US President Donald Trump will seek vaccination efforts in the country.Credit: Bob DaemMrich/Zuma Press Wire/Alamy
She says that the goal of vaccination by 95 % is also assumed that non -fortified individuals are evenly distributed throughout the population. In practice, it is rarely so. In Texas, about 94 % of children who enter kindergarten against measles are vaccinated. But in the area where the current fascism began, only 82 %. “These pockets have many sensitive individuals help the disease start rotating,” says Gromes.
These numbers mean that the United States is now “seriously close” to the loss of “judiciary” on measles. Given this possibility, it is especially important for public health officials to promote vaccines, she says. “You want to support this message by our leading health authorities.”
Chaos
However, the opposite appears to be happening. During the first weeks of US President Donald Trump, his administration pledged to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization and significantly reduce the United States Agency for International Development. Emmy Winter, the epidemic scientist at the University of Georgia in Athens, says that both of the two are measles and other diseases that can occur all over the world. “This rise in global cases will increase pressure on the American vaccination system,” she says.
This system has already weakened: The Trump administration launched hundreds of workers from the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country’s public health agency, and has long developed a deduction of vaccines responsible for the administration that supervises it. Kennedy, a former environmental lawyer, confirmed the legislators during his assertion sessions that he will not change the current vaccine policy, but in the weeks that passed from his post on February 13, the Disease Control Center postponed a meeting of vaccine consultants, and Kennedy said that he would be achieved from the recommended childhood request schedule.
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It is said that the Center for Disease Control is planning to investigate whether the vaccines cause autism – An idea that has been widely tarnished. In response to a question about the comment, a spokesman for the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services (DHHS) said: “The rate of autism in American children has increased. The center of diseases control will not leave any stone without changing its mission to find out exactly what is happening.”
Kennedy’s response to the measles spread in Texas also has some public health experts on the edge of the abyss. During his confirmation sessions, Kennedy said repeatedly that he did not oppose vaccination. After reducing the severity of the outbreak at the beginning during the cabinet meeting, Kennedy issued a statement recognizing the importance of vaccination in preventing measles.
But he also emphasized good nutrition and vitamin A treatment as ways to reduce the intensity of measles. In an interview on March 4, he praised the benefits of cod liver oil.
This has led to the temptation of confusion in Texas, where public health officials hear stories about parents who give non -imprisoned children vitamin A, which can be toxic in high doses, rather than vaccinating them. “I am very worried,” says Philip Huang, Director of Health and Humanitarian Services in Dallas Province. “These confusing messages are not useful.” The American Dhhs did not respond to the request to comment about Kennedy’s comments on nutrition and vitamin A, or about fears of the outbreak of the disease in the future.