Bell-Bottoms, tie-color and crochet have made all the big returns-but a New York City doctor is warning that a trend originating in the 1970s Groovy should stay tightly in the past.
In Texas, where 198 cases of measles have been confirmed so far this year, parents are reported to bear “measles parties” to expose their children to the virus.
Infectious Shindigs diseases are inspired by the “chicken parties” that were thrown in the 1970s, ’80s and’ 90s with the hope of infecting children with the disease at a young age.
The thought was that the chicken can be much more severe for adults, so it was better to take the virus as a child and create immunity.
When the chicken vaccine became available at the US in 1995, the practice mainly died – but some families can restore it among their unjust children as cases of measles are growing.
Ron Cook, leading health official at the Texas University of Texas University Center in Lubbock, Texas, said he learned through social media that parents in the area were throwing these parties, according to Canada’s global news.
At a press conference last week, Dr. Roy Gulick, the chief of infectious disease in Newyork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, called on New Yorkers not to pursue the lawsuit.
“The concept of measles parties – [which] They really started as sheep parties – in other words, getting a baby band together for what is supposed to be a harmless and exposed viral disease is wrong, “he said.
“We should not do this, and the reason is statistically, 30% of children can develop complications from viral disease.
“Much is much safer to vaccinate your child than to get involved in these so -called measles or sheep parties.”
Cook also warned against behavior in Texas.
“It’s not good to go to have measles party … Let me discourage you to do this,” he said. “We cannot predict who will do weaknesses with measles, lie in the hospital and take potentially pneumonia or encephalitis and or pass from this.
“It is just very dangerous … We don’t have to choose and choose who will do well and not do well when you get sick. Please don’t do it, it’s just nonsense, is playing roulette.”
Last week, the New York City Health Department confirmed two well -known measles cases in New York City this year.
Officials did not detect the ages or status of vaccination of the two cases, though the virus is most often spread among non -vaccinated individuals. According to New York City Health Department, if a person has measles, 90% of those who are not vaccinated or immune through previous infection will receive it.
Measles show no symptoms for the first 10-14 days after infection, but can then appear as a cough, sore throat, running nose, pink eyes, white spots inside the mouth, a rash and fever, which can rise up to 104 to 105.8 p.
Although Gulick noted that most people with measles heal, serious complications can occur, and measles cause over 100,000 deaths worldwide – mainly in unjustified children.
“One of the most scared complications of measles is when traveling in the brain and causes inflammation of the brain,” he said. “Neurological complications may include seizures or coma.”
Measles was officially eliminated in the US in 2000, but the cases have been on the rise in recent years.
According to the CDC, there have been 245 cases across the US since March 8, spreading to 12 states.
Last week, New Mexico confirmed the second fatality of this year, in an unjustified adult. This is after an unaccountable child died in February.
At the beginning of this month, the Secretary of the US Health and Human Services Department Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He called on families to consider vaccines, writing in an OP-ED that they “not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons.”
He also emphasized the updated CDC guidance recommending the use of vitamin A “under the supervision of a doctor for those with mild, moderate and severe infection.”
However, Gulick warned against the misunderstanding of the guidance to imply that vitamin A can be used instead of vaccines.
“Vitamin A cannot replace vaccination,” he warned. “Vitamin A neither treats measles nor prevents measles.
“Why people are talking about vitamin A is that studies in developing countries showed that children – mostly with malnutrition – some lacked vitamin A. and so if you give vitamin A at the same time you vaccinate people, they had better immune responses.”
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