Children of school age dies in Texas in the middle of the outbreak, which focused on the supporters of the Christian sect.
In a decade, the United States reported their first measles death after an outbreak of the highly contagious disease in Texas.
The child died overnight overnight after she was admitted to the hospital in Lubbock, Northwest Texas, the state’s health department announced in a statement on Wednesday.
Death is in the middle of falling immunization rates in the USA and controversy about the appointment of the skeptical vaccine, Robert for Kennedy Jr. As a top health officer in the country.
In Texas and in the neighboring state of New Mexico, more than 130 measles cases were reported this year, almost all of people who were not vaccinated.
Health officials said most cases focused on a community of supporters of the Mennonite Christian sect, the bags of which are known to deal with vaccines.
Throwing the outbreak of US President Donald Trump’s First cabinet meeting on WednesdayKennedy, the scientifically discredited research work that combines vaccines with autism, promoted the outbreak as “not unusual”.
“By the way, there were four measles outbursts this year this year,” Kennedy told reporters.
“There were 16 last year. So it is not unusual. We have measles every year. “
The number of measles cases in the United States reached 1,274 peak for almost two decades before falling during the Covid 19 pandemic.
The authorities reported 285 cases in 2024, compared to 59 in 2023 and 121 in the previous year.
The World Health Organization said that measles in 2000 left the United States in 2000 means that there were no outbreaks for a year or more-but this status has been threatened in the growing mood against the vaccination tapes in recent years.
The United States recently reported a measles death after 12 years without a death in connection with the disease.
Measles can be extremely dangerous for people who are not vaccinated, including young infants who are normally not justified to immunize.
According to the CDC, one of five non -vaccinated people in the United States who receives measles will receive pneumonia.
