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~ Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health ~

nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/

Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak. In an interview posted online last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, offered unorthodox, and at times contradictory, messages on vaccination. Eric Lee/The New York Times (Image of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary raising his right hand by a podium and microphone as if speaking to an audience). https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST
By Teddy Rosenbluth March 10, 2025 Updated 5:22 p.m. ET In a sweeping interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on fringe theories about prevention and treatments. He issued a muffled call for vaccinations in the affected community, but said the choice was a personal one. He suggested that measles vaccine injuries were more common than known, contrary to extensive research. He asserted that natural immunity to measles, gained through infection, somehow also protected against cancer and heart disease, a claim not supported by research. He cheered on questionable treatments like cod liver oil, and said that local doctors had achieved "almost miraculous and instantaneous" recoveries with steroids or antibiotics. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST
The worsening measles outbreak, which has largely spread through a Mennonite community in Gaines County, has infected nearly 200 people and killed a child, the first such death in the United States in 10 years. Another suspected measles death has been reported in New Mexico, where cases have recently increased in a county that borders Gaines County. The interview, which lasted 35 minutes, was posted online by Fox News last week, just before the President Trump's address to Congress. Segments had been posted earlier, but the full version received little attention. Mr. Kennedy offered conflicting public health messages as he tried to reconcile the government's longstanding endorsement of vaccines with his own decades-long skepticism. Vaccines are "recommended" for West Texans, but the risks of immunization have been underestimated, he said. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST
Mr. Kennedy acknowledged that vaccines "do prevent infection" and said that the federal government was helping ensure that people have access to "good medicines, including those who want them, to vaccines." "In highly unvaccinated communities like Mennonites, it's something that we recommend," he said. Mr. Kennedy described vaccination as a personal choice that must be respected, then went on to raise frightening concerns about the safety of the vaccines. He said he'd been told that a dozen Mennonite children had been injured by vaccines in Gaines County. People in the community wanted federal health workers arriving in Texas "to also look at our vaccine-injured kids and look them in the eye," Mr. Kennedy said. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST
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