Amid one of the largest measles outbreaks in the United States in nearly a decade, anti-vaccine activists are promoting false ...

During his Senate confirmation hearing, Kennedy denied questions about his role in promoting vaccine skepticism that led to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa and said he supports measles ...

Measles is a miserable, potentially deadly disease from which parents should want their children to be protected.

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 ...

"It's a total fabrication,” Samoa Director-General of Health Dr. Alec Ekeroma told The Associated Press after Kennedy’s comments. Kennedy’s trip was organized by an anti-vaccine influencer ...

This echoes misinformation that spread during an outbreak in Samoa in 2019 ... Health Organization (archived here), said the MMR vaccine poses few health risks. "With the measles, rubella ...

Measles is highly contagious. Without a vaccine, 9 out of 10 people exposed to measles will become infected, the CDC said. About 1 to 3 of every 1,000 children with measles will die, usually from ...