New HHS Chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the measles outbreak was being monitored but was "not unusual" based on data so far
Trump's choice of RFK Jr. to be HHS secretary poses a risk to GOP lawmakers in the midterm elections if measles, bird flu, ebola or another disease rips through the country.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed the severity of a Texas measles outbreak during Trump’s first Cabinet meeting.
The unvaccinated school-age child is the first confirmed fatality in Texas’s worst measles outbreak in three decades.
The death of the unvaccinated school-aged child marks the first fatality from measles in the United States in 10 years.
(Misiona Simo/Samoa Observer via AP ... rejecting his claim that some who died in the country's 2019 measles epidemic didn't have the disease. "We don’t know what was killing them," Kennedy ...
Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in the year 2000 due to an effective vaccine. But a quarter century later the disease is still here and causing sickness and hospitalizations
In Texas, health officials say a measles outbreak is the state’s largest in nearly 30 years. As of Tuesday at least 58 people in rural West Texas were diagnosed. And it appears to have spread to New Mexico, where eight people are sick from a smaller outbreak.
During his Senate hearings earlier this month, he also suggested that a deadly 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa wasn’t actually caused by measles, a claim that Samoa’s director-general of health called “a total fabrication.” Kennedy had also visited ...
Democrats hammered Kennedy about his involvement in Samoa during his confirmation hearings, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) saying, “There’s a measles outbreak, and children start dying ...
During his Senate hearings earlier this month, he also suggested that a deadly 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa wasn’t actually caused by measles, a claim that Samoa’s director-general of health called “a total fabrication.” Kennedy had also visited ...