The number of measles outbreaks since last month in Texas increased to 90, local authorities announced Friday, an indication of the dynamic return of the extremely infectious disease that had almost been eliminated from the country, thanks to vaccination.

These infections have been announced as the US vaccination level falls after the new coronary pandemics and when it reigns uncertainty about the policy of the new health minister of the country, the country’s health minister, Robert Kennedy The youngest, known for his anti -vaccination positions.

After initially announcing 48 cases last week, the Texas authorities spoke yesterday about ’90 outbreaks found by the end of January’ in the South Pleins area, in the northwestern part of the state, where the epidemic is raging.

In their vast majority, patients are unemployed and under 18 years of age· 26 are under 4 years old, according to authorities. Of all the people infected, “16 patients were admitted to hospitals”.

As measles is particularly infectious, Texas authorities discount that New cases are expected.

According to federal health authorities, few more cases have been identified since the beginning of the year in a few more American states: in Alaska, California, Georgia, New Mexico, New Jerzi and New York.

In 2024 they were recorded 285 measures of measles across the country; 2023 no more than 59. These numbers are comparatively high, however, lower than the more than 1,000 cases recorded in 2019, when an epidemic of the New York and New Jersey Orthodox Jews occurred in general.

While it was almost eliminated in many developed countries, measles has reappeared in recent years due to the decrease in vaccine coverage.

In the US, the percentage of young children who have been vaccinated against measles – though, in theory, is mandatory – retreated from 95% in 2019 at a level below the 93% in 2023with greater local reductions. The reason is the avoidance of vaccination, the exceptions, with the ever more frequent invocation of non -medical reasons.

In Texas, as in several other US states, parents can rely on religious beliefs or another reason to ensure an exception. In the Games County, Texas, where most cases have been recorded, a large community lives menonitewhich are generally not vaccinated.

Before it is effective and available on a large scale against measles in the early years of 1960, the disease killed hundreds of children each year in the US. It continues to cause tens of thousands of deaths on international scale, they are reminiscent of experts.