acf domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/wellnessdigest4u/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121An 8-year-old girl in Texas died Thursday morning of \u201cmeasles pulmonary failure,\u201d according to The New York Times, citing records it obtained. <\/p>\n
A Trump administration official told the paper the girl\u2019s cause of death is \u201cstill being looked at.\u201d <\/p>\n
This is the second death in the state linked to the ongoing measles outbreak. The first death was in an unvaccinated school-age child in February. A death in New Mexico remains under investigation. <\/p>\n
The outbreak \u2013 now spanning Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and possibly Kansas \u2013 reached at least 569 cases Friday, according to data obtained from state health departments. <\/p>\n
Texas has reported 481 outbreak-associated cases; New Mexico has 54 cases, and Oklahoma reported 10 cases \u2013 eight confirmed and two probable \u2013 as of Friday. <\/p>\n
Cases in Kansas, which the state health department said may be linked to the outbreak, reached 24 as of Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Experts said these numbers are most likely a severe undercount because many cases go unreported. <\/p>\n
Most of the reported cases are in people under 18, and experts worry about increasing hospitalizations, especially in younger children who are at higher risk of complications. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe more children who get the disease means that there\u2019s an increased chance that there will be more children getting sicker with complications from measles,\u201d said Dr. Christina Johns, a pediatric emergency physician at PM Pediatrics in Annapolis, Maryland. <\/p>\n
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has downplayed the severity of the outbreak and faced criticism of the agency\u2019s response. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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An 8-year-old girl in Texas died Thursday morning of \u201cmeasles pulmonary failure,\u201d according to The New York Times, citing records it obtained. A Trump administration official told the paper the girl\u2019s cause of death is \u201cstill being looked at.\u201d This is the second death in the state linked to the ongoing measles outbreak. The first death was in an unvaccinated school-age child in February. A death in New Mexico remains under investigation. The outbreak \u2013 now spanning Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and possibly Kansas \u2013 reached at least 569 cases Friday, according to data obtained from state health departments. Texas has reported 481 outbreak-associated cases; New Mexico has 54 cases, and Oklahoma reported 10 cases \u2013 eight confirmed and two probable \u2013 as of Friday. Cases in Kansas, which the state health department said may be linked to the outbreak, reached 24 as of Wednesday. Experts said these numbers are most likely a severe undercount because many cases go unreported. Most of the reported cases are in people under 18, and experts worry about increasing hospitalizations, especially in younger children who are at higher risk of complications. \u201cThe more children who get the disease means that there\u2019s an increased chance …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessdigest4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessdigest4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessdigest4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessdigest4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessdigest4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessdigest4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessdigest4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessdigest4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessdigest4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessdigest4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}