Measles is one of the world’s most contagious diseases, with one person being able to infect nine out of 10 of their unvaccinated close contacts.
As a measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, the response from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has leaned heavily on treatment with vitamin A, as well as “good results” from the use of the steroid budesonide, the antibiotic clarithromycin and cod liver oil.
Latest data shows significant rise in parents sending kindergarteners to school without the required measles vaccine.
A rise in vaccine hesitancy may be causing a recent spike in measles showing up in a way it has not in decades.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health says it has verified an employee at Wayside Elementary in Bartlesville does not have measles.