Another child infected with measles died in Texas, and the funeral is also planned by Antivaxer Kennedy

Austin. In the US state of Texas, a second child infected with measles died. According to NBC News, this was confirmed by the Ministry of Health. The exact cause of the death is being investigated so far.

However, according to the informed source, the Sunday funeral of the child will also be attended by Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy younger.

Symptoms of measles include the rise of temperature, rhinitis, cough and conjunctivitis as well as a specific rash. Respiratory or neurological complications, such as pneumonia, middle ear or brain, may occur.

Death may also occur whose risk is higher in young children who are not yet vaccinated. The disease has no effective treatment, doctors only mild symptoms.

About one person in a thousand infected people die of the disease.

The infection spreads further

As part of the rapidly spreading measles infection, which has only been infected by nearly 500 people in Texas since January, this is the second death of the child.

Suspicion of death due to measles infection has also been reported for one adult person in a new one Mexico.

In this context, NBC News says that this is the first death of measles in the United States in the last decade.

According to an unnamed informed source, the Minister of Health Kennedy younger will participate in the funeral of a child in Texas planned on Sunday.

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Kennedy, a long -time vaccination skeptic, in the immediate response to the first February death deaths said that measles outbreaks are not unusual that has encountered criticism by doctors.

Many opponents of vaccination claim that vaccination should be a personal choice. However, experts argue that it is the growing skepticism of vaccination that results in the emergence of outbreaks of an unvaccinated or insufficient vaccinated population, which is a breeding ground for further spread of infection.

On Friday, the Texas authorities registered 481 confirmed cases of measles infection, which represents a 14 % increase compared to the previous week.

In the past two weeks, the infection has been confirmed in six children in the Lubbock. Two of these children are among 56 infected people who have been hospitalized since the end of January, when the disease began to spread, NBC News writes, referring to health officials.

Data is probably undervalued

According to the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately one to three in every 1,000 infants infected with measles dies from respiratory and neurological complications.

About one in 20 children infected with measles receive pneumonia, which is the most common cause of death of young children with measles.

The current spread of the infection in Texas began at the end of January and has since spread to at least two other US states.

In 21 of the 50 US states and the capital of Washington, 628 cases of measles infection have been reported since the end of January.

However, it is assumed that this is a considerably underestimated figure, said the Chief Public Health Deputy in Lubbock Katherine Wells, saying that many unauthorized infected is probably not in the system.

Wells and other medical officials are now calling on parents to have their children vaccinated against measles. Two doses of the so -called MMR vaccineswhich also protects against rubella and mumps, are safe according to the CDC and have a 97 % efficiency in the prevention of the infection.