{"id":24043,"date":"2025-03-15T15:09:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24043"},"modified":"2025-03-15T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:30:12","slug":"keeping-with-kennedys-advice-measles-patients-turn-to-unproven-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24043","title":{"rendered":"Keeping With Kennedy\u2019s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"

In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.<\/p>\n

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Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on unproven remedies endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and postponing doctor visits until the illness has worsened.<\/p>\n

Hospitals and officials sounded an alarm this week<\/a>, issuing a notice explaining which measles symptoms warranted immediate medical attention and stressing the importance of timely treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>I\u2019m worried we have kids and parents that are taking all of these other medications and then delaying care,\u201d said Katherine Wells, director of public health in Lubbock, Texas, where many of the sickest children in this outbreak have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n

Some seriously ill children had been given alternative remedies like cod liver oil, she added. \u201cIf they\u2019re so, so sick and have low oxygen levels, they should have been in the hospital a day or two earlier,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The growing outbreak has spread to nearly 260 <\/strong>people in Texas. So far, 34 patients have been hospitalized, and one child has died. In neighboring New Mexico counties, the virus has sickened 35 and hospitalized two. Two cases in Oklahoma have also been linked to the outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Texas health officials believe the true number of cases is far higher. In all, there have been 301 measles cases in the United States this year, the highest number since 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on unproven remedies endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and postponing doctor visits until the illness has worsened.Hospitals and officials sounded an alarm this week, issuing a notice explaining which measles symptoms warranted immediate medical attention and stressing the importance of timely treatment.\u201cI\u2019m worried we have kids and parents that are taking all of these other medications and then delaying care,\u201d said Katherine Wells, director of public health in Lubbock, Texas, where many of the sickest children in this outbreak have been hospitalized.Some seriously ill children had been given alternative remedies like cod liver oil, she added. \u201cIf they\u2019re so, so sick and have low oxygen levels, they should have been in the hospital a day or two earlier,\u201d she said.The growing outbreak has spread to nearly 260 people in Texas. So far, 34 patients have been hospitalized, and one child has died. In neighboring New Mexico counties, the virus has sickened 35 and hospitalized two. Two cases in Oklahoma have also been linked to the outbreak.Texas health officials believe the true number of cases is far higher. In all, there have been 301 measles cases in the United States this year, the highest number since 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday.Where U.S. Measles Outbreaks Are SpreadingAs new cases are reported, our maps and illustrations show the spread of the virus and how infections can run through a community.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":24045,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043","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=24043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24046,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043\/revisions\/24046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}