Health News Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak To Poor Diet And Health, Citing Fringe Theories

While scientists race to study spread of measles in US, Kennedy unravels hard-won gains

How many measles cases are going undetected? Andrew Pavia, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Utah, said in some communities, getting tested means a tank of gas, missing work, finding a ... Read More

First measles death reported in Texas as Kennedy downplays outbreak

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday appeared to downplay the seriousness of the West Texas measles outbreak that has killed a school-age child. The child’s death, ... Read More

Measles Outbreak Nears Grim Milestone as Hundreds Quarantine in South Carolina

The South Carolina Department of Public Health reported 27 new cases of measles on Tuesday, all identified since last Friday, bringing the total number of identified cases in the state this year to ... Read More

RFK Jr.’s Policies Didn’t Worsen the South Carolina Measles Outbreak, but His Views Did

As far as vaccines go, Kennedy is comparably supportive of the one for measles, at least since stepping into his role at HHS. Back on March 2, he wrote an op-ed for Fox News about measles, in response ... Read More

Kennedy’s push for vitamins in response to measles outbreak worries physicians

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rhetoric on Texas’s measles outbreak is concerning physicians, who fear his public guidance is misguided and verges on being dangerous ... Read More

Blamed for the nation’s historic measles outbreak, West Texas Mennonites have hardened their views on vaccines

Months after public health officials say they caused the nation’s largest measles surge in 30 years, some West Texas Mennonites have grown more skeptical of the mainstream medical system. Read More

Measles outbreak in Arizona and Utah could spell the end for U.S. elimination status

A measles outbreak in Arizona and Utah shows no sign of slowing, putting the United States dangerously close to losing its elimination status for the vaccine-preventable disease. With holiday travel ... Read More

CDC Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time

Health officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end the United States’ status as a nation that has ... Read More