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Citing growing concern over measles outbreaks across the United States, President Trump said Americans should be vaccinated, breaking with skepticism about current medical recommendations.

"They must be vaccinated," he told reporters on Friday in front of the White House. "Immunizations are so important. This is circulating now. They must have their shots. "

The disease has already been confirmed in at least 695 cases in 22 states – almost double the total number of cases in 2018 – in what has become the worst measles outbreak since the eradication of the disease there is near 20 years.

"The current epidemic is deeply troubling and I call on all health care providers to ensure the efficacy and safety of measles vaccine for patients," said the director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a statement. "And I encourage all Americans to adhere to the CDC vaccine guidelines in order to protect themselves, their families and their communities from measles and other preventable diseases through immunization." As a nation, we must work together to eliminate this disease once and for all. "

According to the agency, this high number is mainly due to some major epidemics that began in 2018 – one in the state of Washington and another in New York City and in the state. Stopping epidemics is a priority for the CDC, which states "working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to protect Americans from this contagious disease," adding that vaccination is the best way to protect against measles.

Trump's new perspective on vaccinations goes against previous statements he made about their use. In 2014, he tweeted there are "many similar cases" of children who go to the doctor "is pumped with a mbadive shot of many vaccines, does not feel good and does not change – AUTISM". During his campaign the following year, the Republican presidential candidate of the time pushed for Children will receive smaller doses over long periods of time after calling the current recommendations "monstrous combination vaccines" . After winning the 2016 election, Trump met Andrew Wakefield, a known leader of the anti-vax movement and now discredited author of a 1998 study that linked the measles-mumps stroke -football with autism.

"Measles is not a safe childhood disease, but an extremely contagious, life-threatening disease. We have the ability to safely protect our children and our communities. Vaccines are a safe and highly effective public health solution for preventing this disease. Measles vaccines are among the most studied medical products and their safety has been firmly established for many years in some of the largest vaccine studies ever undertaken, "Health and Social Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement. communicated.

Indeed, a large part of the world sees a mbadive increase in the number of measles cases worldwide, mainly because parents have chosen not to vaccinate their children at the expense of health and safety, mainly the false theory according to which vaccines are at the origin of autism. In the past four months, 110,000 cases have been reported so far, an increase of 300% over the same period last year. New data shows that 169 million children have not received their first dose of MMR between 2010 and 2017, or 21.1 million children per year.