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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, claimed that local doctors had successfully treated children with a steroid, antibiotics or cod liver oil.<\/p>\n

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A measles outbreak that has spread over a swath of West Texas, killing one child, shows no signs of slowing, according to data announced on Tuesday by state health officials.<\/p>\n

The Texas Department of Health reported that since late January, nearly 160 people have contracted measles \u2014 20 more cases than reported on Friday \u2014 and 22 have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Tuesday that it would send some of its \u201cdisease detectives\u201d to Texas<\/a>, one of the first steps the new administration has taken to help manage the outbreak.<\/p>\n

The news comes amid criticism of federal officials for underplaying the need for immunizations with the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine<\/a>, one of the most important tools in quelling an outbreak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary and a prominent vaccine skeptic, published an opinion piece on Sunday night acknowledging that vaccines protect children from measles and urged parents to talk with their doctors \u201cto understand their options to get the M.M.R. vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision to vaccinate is a personal one,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

In a prerecorded interview that aired on Fox News on Tuesday<\/a>, Mr. Kennedy said that the federal government was shipping doses of vitamin A to Gaines County, in West Texas, and helping to arrange ambulance rides.<\/p>\n

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, claimed that local doctors had successfully treated children with a steroid, antibiotics or cod liver oil.A measles outbreak that has spread over a swath of West Texas, killing one child, shows no signs of slowing, according to data announced on Tuesday by state health officials.The Texas Department of Health reported that since late January, nearly 160 people have contracted measles \u2014 20 more cases than reported on Friday \u2014 and 22 have been hospitalized.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Tuesday that it would send some of its \u201cdisease detectives\u201d to Texas, one of the first steps the new administration has taken to help manage the outbreak.The news comes amid criticism of federal officials for underplaying the need for immunizations with the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, one of the most important tools in quelling an outbreak.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary and a prominent vaccine skeptic, published an opinion piece on Sunday night acknowledging that vaccines protect children from measles and urged parents to talk with their doctors \u201cto understand their options to get the M.M.R. vaccine.\u201d\u201cThe decision to vaccinate is a personal one,\u201d he wrote.In a prerecorded interview that aired on Fox News on Tuesday, Mr. Kennedy said that the federal government was shipping doses of vitamin A to Gaines County, in West Texas, and helping to arrange ambulance rides.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23212,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23213,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions\/23213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}