The Infectious Disease Society of America says there have been “no deaths related to the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine ...

Kennedy has acknowledged that vaccines are effective at preventing the spread of measles, but also peddled the lie that ...

MORE: RFK Jr. has questioned rising autism rates ... that the deaths of 83 people – mostly young children – in Samoa in 2019 were caused by measles, despite widespread evidence that the ...

A 2019 measles outbreak that killed 83 people in Samoa around the time Kennedy visited the country was a key sticking point in the official’s confirmation hearing. Kennedy told the Senate his ...

Indeed, when RFK Jr. visited Samoa in 2018, which suffered a measles epidemic that caused 5,600 cases and 83 deaths, mostly in children less than 4, he refused to admit that the deaths were caused by ...

RFK Jr. has already shown how far he’s willing to go with this anti-scientific zealotry. As we’ve consistently pointed out, his 2019 excursion to Samoa contributed to a measles outbreak that ...

In 2019, Children’s Health Defense — then under Kennedy’s stewardship — fomented anti-measles vaccine sentiment in Samoa ahead of an outbreak that killed 83 people. Public panic over the ...

After visiting Samoa in 2019, where he discussed the topic ... Others were far more outspoken about their dismay. "RFK, Jr. is going to bring in the next death shot, healthy people will be ...

Not even three months into 2025, the United States is approaching the number of measles cases it saw in all of last year: 222 and counting. A growing outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has claimed two ...

Amid the measles outbreak in Texas, along with a scattering of cases in several other states, doctors are emphasizing the importance of community protection.

Another moral panic RFK Jr. has been vocal about is “men playing women’s sports,” by which he means the tiny number of transgender athletes joining their peers on a ball field, another bit ...

In Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting of his second term, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed the severity of a measles outbreak in South Texas that has already caused the first ...