The child at school dies in Texas in the midst of the outbreak of concentrated among the followers of the Christian sect.
The United States reported on the first death of measles in a decade after an unintended child became ill in the midst of the outbreak of a very infectious disease in Texas.
The baby at school died overnight after being hospitalized in Lubbock, in the northwest of Texas, the state health department said in a statement on Wednesday.
Death comes due to the falling rate of immunization in the USA -ui controversy due to the appointment of skeptics of the vaccine Robert F Kennedy Jr as the best health official in the country.
This year, more than 130 cases of measles in Texas and the neighboring country of New Mexico were recorded, almost all of people who were not vaccinated.
Health officials said that most cases are concentrated in the community of followers of the Christian menonite sect, whose pockets are known for being cautious of vaccines.
Addressing the outbreak of US President Donald Trump The first cabinet meeting on WednesdayKennedy, who promoted scientifically discredited research that connects vaccines to autism, overthrew the epidemic as “not unusual.”
“By the way, there were four measles epidemic in this country,” Kennedy told reporters.
“Last year it was 16. So it’s not unusual. We have measles epidemics every year.”
The number of cases of measles in the United States hit almost two decades of 1,274 top in 2019 before falling during the Coid-19 pandemia.
In 2024, the authorities reported on 285 cases, compared to 59 in 2023 and 121 years before that.
The World Health Organization has declared measles eliminated from the US in 2000-which means that no epidemic has persisted for a year or older years-that status has become under threat in recent years due to growing feelings against vaccines.
The US last reported about the death associated with measles in 2015, after 12 years without death -related death.
Zapi can be extremely dangerous for people who are not vaccinated, including young newborns who are not usually acceptable for immunization.
About one of five unvaccinated people in the US who get measles are hospitalized, and as many as every 20 children with measles get pneumonia, CDC states.
