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

Measles outbreak in Upstate SC grows to 34 cases; state has seen 37 total cases since July

The measles outbreak in Upstate South Carolina continues to spread, with four new cases confirmed, the Department of Public Health announced Oct. 31. The outbreak has now sickened 34 people, and the ... Read More

South Carolina’s measles outbreak shows chilling effect of vaccine misinformation

Near the back corner of the local library’s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in early November, offering free ... Read More

Health officials provide safe travel tips for SC Measles outbreak

CONWAY, SC (WMBF) - More than 50 confirmed cases of measles have been linked to an outbreak in South Carolina’s Upstate, with over 100 people quarantined due to potential exposure. The South Carolina ... Read More

Canada loses its measles elimination status. Will the U.S. be next?

Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the country’s Public Health Agency announced Monday. It’s the first country in the Americas to do so since the pandemic, and it could serve as a warning ... Read More