America faces one of the biggest measles outbreaks ... new injuries in two states

The health services in the States Texas and the US New Mexico said that measles infection in the two states has increased to 370, an increase of 19 cases since the last two reports four days ago, while the United States faces one of the largest outbreaks in the measles over the past decade. The Department of Health Services in Texas said on Tuesday that the number of cases in the jeans province increased to 226 cases of 211. The province is the current outbreak of grain in America, which began at the end of January. According to the data of US centers to control and prevent disease, the total number of cases in the two states exceeded the number of injuries recorded at the country level of 285 last year. The measles vaccine refused and reported New Mexico’s condition of one additional case since March 21, reaching the total to 43, while Texas reached 18 other cases, the state led to 327. Texas. “It will take time (to control the outbreak), unfortunately because some people have refused to obtain the vaccine,” said Texas doctor Tami Camp. In a sound statement issued on the seventh March, disease control and prevention centers said that the risk of measles was widely distributed in the United States is still low. The measles worldwide earlier this month showed an analysis performed by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the number of measles reports reported in the European region during 2024, compared to the previous year, which brought the number to the highest level in more than 25 years. Europe contains 53 countries in Europe and Central Asia. The World Health Organization said in a statement that children under the age of five formed more than 40% out of 127 thousand and 350 cases of them last year in the region. “The measles are back, and it’s a warning bell, without high vaccination rates, there is no health safety,” said Hans Henry, regional director of the World Health Organization in Europe. The World Health Organization said last November that about 10.3 million measles cases took place in 2023, an increase of 20% against the census of 2022, pointing out that it is insufficient coverage of the world -class immunization that drives the increase in cases. Global gaps and due to the global gaps in the coverage of vaccination, 57 countries have seen a major outbreak, or destroy the group in 2023, except for the Americas, had an increase of about 60% over 36 countries last year. The World Health Organization areas in Africa, the Eastern Midland Sea, Europe, Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific have seen a significant increase in cases. The organization says that almost half of all major outbreaks, and the destroyed in the Africa region have taken place.