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The ongoing measles outbreak has increased to 258 in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and the state department is urging more people than the health department to get measles-mumps-raobella vaccine.
In an interview to Fox News on Tuesday, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, “People should be able to make this choice for themselves. And what we need to do is provide them with the best information and encourage them to vaccinate.
But Kennedy also eliminated the vaccine safety and misrepresented Fox News’s Sean Hunti that the spread of measles can be partially operated by people who end the vaccine.
“When you and I had a baby, everyone gets measles, and measles has given you a lifetime protection against measles infection. The vaccine does not do so. This vaccine is effective for some people for life, but for many people, it ends,” Kennedy told Hunty.
“A few years, we have hundreds of outbreaks … and, you know, a part of that is that there are people who do not vaccinate, but also the vaccine itself ends. He said that the vaccine ends 4.5 percent every year.
But Dr. Paul Offt, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, says that if this happened, measles is not abolished in the United States in 2000.
There is some dispute between experts, how much protection can end, if not at all. However, they all agree that in most cases, the vaccine gives a lifetime exemption against the virus.
“The current outbreak has been driven and started,” said Dr. Michael Mina, a scientific officer of the television company and the spread of infectious disease, immunology and infectious disease.
He said that even those who can get immunity will not transfer large quantities of viruses.
The levels of antibodies produced by the vaccine may decrease over time, but with viruses such as measles, its long -term long -term gives the body’s immune memory cells more time to help fight infection. The Open explained that this enables the vaccination to be a long -lasting exception.
Since measles was eliminated in the United States, on average about 179 cases have been reported every year, many of them are related to international travel. There are an average of eight outbreaks each year – which is 1 to 25 annually – and in most years, at least 60 % of all the reported cases have been linked to the spread. But even the worst epidemic is usually under 50 cases.
This is only the fifth year since 2000, causing more than 100 cases and more than 200 cases in the third year. The other were 2014, with Disneyland being associated with, and 2019, when almost a year in New York came within weeks to end the country’s collapse.
Some Kennedy’s statements promoted natural immunity, when someone gets measles, the vaccine encourages immunity.
Two doses of MMR vaccine are 97 % effective against measles. Those who were naturally affected by measles will also be exempted, but not without serious threats.
“The goal of a vaccine is to give immunity, which is the result of a natural infection without paying the cost of natural infections,”
The cost of infection can be higher: One of the five People with measles will be hospitalized, 1 out of 20 children with measles will develop pneumonia, and 1,000 children with measles will cause 1 encephalitis or brain swelling.
According to, one to three children of measles will die in complications in one to three children American centers to control and prevent diseases. A school -age child who did not get drops is included in the two deaths that are already associated with the spread of measles.
Another possible result of the infection is “immune ammonia”. When the measles virus affects immune cells, it can erase the body’s memory of how to fight other infections.
“So if you want to take the path of natural immunity … you are destroying your former immune memory and endangering yourself for every other infection that you can find. And there is no world in which the measles is good for the body, and there is no world that has a better vaccine.
Kennedy also wrongly said that vaccine -affected immunity can not be transmitted to children like a natural immunity through breast milk.
“That’s wrong. Dr. Lin Yi, a specialist at the North Western Fenburg School of Medicine, said that the transfer of maternity antibodies is an important form of newborn protection against infectious diseases. “Even when a mother vaccinated many years ago, antibodies still transfer.”
He said that this is especially important because infant can get protection from the virus through antibodies from his mother in the first six months of his life, when he is very young to vaccinate.
Kennedy also misrepresented the negative events from the MMR vaccine, saying that it “causes death every year … This causes all the diseases that have measles itself: nausea and blindness, etc.”
Dr. Peter Hotiz, co -director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and the National School of Triple Medicine at the Beller College of Medicine, has described it as “unknown information”.
“The measles vaccine is incredibly safe,” he told CNN’s Jack Tipper. “This is what the anti -vaccine workers do, they play and try to scare you with a very rare side effects and forget about telling you about the horrific effects of the disease.”
Infection of measles can cause analitis and blindness, but only one Fishery This type of vaccination has been reported from all of these types of diseases.
A Study In which the US Food and Drug Administration and the CDC reviewed reports of the report of the vaccine reports of vaccine incidents, as well as post -mortem reports, “an important relationship between MMR vaccine and death” was not found.
“The MMR vaccine is extremely safe. The most common side effects that people can get is a low -level fever for a few days, and sometimes people can get this temporary irritation that is usually resolved within 24 to 48 hours. Dr. Vivek Charian, a Chicago -based internal medicine, said that these are the most common symptoms so far, and there are even fewer, which are very few, but they are extremely rare.
According to, the more serious side effects than the vaccination are extremely rare Cdc.
“All they [common side effects] These are a sign that this vaccine is working and your immune system is increasing the reaction that is believed to be the last Memory memory to protect you later. But many people are presenting them as important adverse events, and that’s why I think the devil is really in detail, “said Dr. Christina Johns, a pediatric emergency physician at PM Pediatricks in Annapolis, Maryland.
CNN’s Deadri McPhlips participated in the report.
