Local officials in Samoa don't blame Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's HHS pick, for measles deaths, but critics call his actions "harmful." ...

Senators grilled Trump's health secretary pick over his 2019 Samoa trip, accusing him of downplaying his role in the epidemic.

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in the year 2000 due to an effective vaccine. But a quarter century ...

An outbreak of measles is wreaking havoc in the South Plains region of Texas where nearly 60 children have been confirmed to ...

Twenty-five years ago, the World Health Organization and U.S. officials celebrated a WHO declaration that a highly successful ...

In Texas, health officials say a measles outbreak is the state’s largest in nearly 30 years. As of Tuesday at least 58 people ...

The deepening measles outbreak is a direct result of decades of anti-vaccine disinformation peddled by Kennedy and his ...

Nine of 24 people with measles in Texas are hospitalized for a disease that was considered eliminated in 2000. Kennedy has ...

Rates of children’s vaccinations plummeted, leading to two-thirds of Samoa’s babies going unvaccinated. Then in 2019 and 2020 a measles outbreak swept the country, sickening thousands and ...

With hospitalizations and at least nine confirmed cases, health officials race to contain a growing outbreak in a community ...

During his Senate hearings earlier this month, he also suggested that a deadly 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa wasn’t actually ...

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