Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is approved for Measles Approved MMR Vaccine X
The Secretary of Health and Human Services and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are supporting the measles vaccine after a visit to West Texas.
This week, Texas health officials reported that the total number of identified measles cases has reached 505 since it began in January, with several counties identified as active outbreak locations.
This comes after state health officials confirmed a second death related to Outbreak, a school-age child who died Thursday at Lubbock Hospital.
As of April 8, Cochrane, Durham, Dawson, Gaines, Garza, Lynn, Lamar, Lubbock, Terry and Yoakham counties are all designated outbreak counties with extended-length propagation, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
With 57 individuals in hospital so far, there is a current breakdown of cases by county, as well as an increase seen since the previous update DSHS reported on April 3.
Andrew: 1 case (no new case).borden: 1 case (new county).brown: 1 case (no new case).cochran: 10 cases (one new case).10 cases (one new case).dallam: 7 cases (no new case).dawson: 20 cases (new case). Cases: 5 cases (two new cases).hockley: 3 cases (no new cases).lamar: 11 cases (no new cases).lamb (no new cases).lubbock: 36 cases (3 cases).lynn: 2 cases (no new cases).martin: 3 cases (no new cases).midland: 1 case: 1 case (new cases). Case).yoakum: 17 cases (no new cases).
DSHS also counted down cases by age group.
Ages 0-4: 160 cases (3 cases).
What are the symptoms of measles?
According to Boston Children’s Hospital, symptoms of measles include:
Hacking cough suppressants and eye red and stimulation. Fever.small red spots with white centers appearing on the inside of the cheeks – these usually occur two days before the skin rash appears. This rash usually starts as a small, distinct lesion, which binds as one large rash.
According to the hospital, it takes 8-12 days for a child to develop measles symptoms, but it can be 1-2 days before the onset of symptoms and 3-5 days after the rash develops.
How do you sign up for measles?
Mayo Clinic says healthy people can take the virus whenever an infected person coughs, sneezes, speaks, and infectious drops are blown into the air and others can breathe in.
Infected droplets can also survive on surfaces for several hours, and healthy people may touch the infected surface before placing their fingers on their mouths or noses or rubbing their eyes.
“Around 90% of people who don’t have measles or have not been vaccinated from measles will become infected when exposed to people with the measles virus,” the clinic reports.
Mateo Rosiles is a government and public policy reporter for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Did you get news tips for him? Email him at mrosiles@lubbockonline.com.
