Published on: 2025-04-21 09:35:41
Anti-vaccine activists with close ties to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are falsely claiming that the measles public health crisis in Texas is caused by a “bioweapon” targeting the Mennonite community. These activists are now trying to sell their followers a range of pseudoscientific cures—some purportedly powered by artificial intelligence—that supposedly prevent customers from contracting measles. The claims were made in a webinar posted online last week and hosted by Mikki Willis
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In now-rarified comments from experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency official on Tuesday evening said the explosive measles outbreak mushrooming out of West Texas will require "significant financial resources" to control and that the agency is already struggling to keep up. "We are scrapping to find the resources and personnel needed to provide support to Texas and other jurisdictions," said David Sugerman, the CDC's lead on its measles team. The agency has been de
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The US measles outbreak has continued to spread, and now according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 22 states have reported cases. The outbreak in West Texas continues to be the largest outbreak, and a second child has died from the disease. Measles outbreaks have been confirmed in Texas, Ohio, New Mexico and Kansas, with more than 600 cases so far. Cases aren't just appearing where outbreaks have been confirmed. There are also reported cases in Alaska, California, Florida, Ge
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Health experts took to one of the country's leading medical journals to pen searing rebukes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first weeks as the country's top health official—and they called upon their colleagues to rise up to fight the misinformation and distrust they allege Kennedy, a long-time anti-vaccine advocate, is fomenting. From gutting federal health agencies and knee-capping critical local public health programs, to delaying a significant vaccine advisory meeting, hiring a discredited anti-
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Image by Paul Morigi/Getty Images Developments A second child has died as a result of a measles outbreak in West Texas, bringing the total number of people who have succumbed to the highly contagious disease to three. It's both a dire and preventable situation, given the existence of highly effective and widely available vaccines. And the tremendous wealth of scientific evidence supporting them appears to have finally dawned on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert
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The US measles outbreak has continued to spread, and now according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 22 states have reported cases. The outbreak in West Texas continues to be the largest outbreak, and a second child has died from the disease. Measles outbreaks have been confirmed in Texas, Ohio, New Mexico and Kansas, with more than 600 cases so far. Cases aren't just appearing where outbreaks have been confirmed. There are also reported cases in Alaska, California, Florida, Ge
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Measles has been making an unwelcome comeback in the U.S. and world lately. Its resurgence might be enough to make many of us reasonably wonder: Just how protected am I from measles? And should I think about getting a booster vaccine shot? It’s important to emphasize that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine is highly effective—providing 97% protection from measles with the standard two-shot series. Most Americans have and are still getting vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, thanks to ro
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A study released on Wednesday finds that a live-virus vaccine that limits shingles symptoms was associated with a drop in the risk for dementia when it was introduced. The work took advantage of the fact that the National Health Service Wales made the vaccine available with a very specific age limit, essentially creating two populations, vaccinated and unvaccinated, separated by a single date. And these populations showed a sharp divide in how often they were diagnosed with dementia, despite hav
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As if you needed another reason to get your shingles vaccine. Research released today is the latest to find that older people vaccinated against shingles are significantly less likely to develop dementia down the road. Scientists at Stanford University led the research, published in Nature. They compared people born before and after they were eligible to take the shingles vaccine in a certain part of the UK, finding that vaccinated people were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over
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The current US measles outbreak in West Texas has spread. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, measles outbreaks have been officially confirmed in three more states: New Mexico, Ohio and Kansas. It's not only those jurisdictions, however. Measles cases have now been reported in Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York City, New York State, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Washington, p
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The wolves have firmly taken charge of the henhouse. The federal government has reportedly chosen David Geier, a notorious vaccine skeptic, to lead its upcoming study examining an already debunked link between vaccination and autism. The Washington Post first reported on the development Tuesday afternoon, citing anonymous current and former federal health officials. Geier has long advocated against vaccination, often releasing shoddy and swiftly discredited research. His hiring is yet another s
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I n the summer of 2024 several groups of scientists published a curious finding: people vaccinated against shingles were less likely to develop dementia than their unvaccinated peers. Two of the papers came from the lab of Pascal Geldsetzer at Stanford University. Analysing medical records from Britain and Australia, the researchers concluded that around a fifth of dementia diagnoses could be averted through the original shingles vaccine, which contains live varicella-zoster virus. Two other stu
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Federal support for mRNA vaccine research appears in jeopardy after KFF Health News reported Sunday that officials at the National Institutes of Health have directed scientists to remove all references to the lifesaving technology from their grant applications. All such research is now under direct scrutiny from health secretary and long-time anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A senior official at the NIH's National Cancer Institute confirmed to KFF that NIH acting Director Matthew Mem
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Image by Getty / Futurism Cancer With the help of mRNA technology proven effective during the COVID pandemic, researchers are now closer than ever to creating viable cancer vaccines. In an interview with Wired, Lennard Lee, an oncologist with the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) working on mRNA cancer vaccines, says he believes the groundbreaking research may prove to be a "silver lining" in the brutal COVID-19 pandemic. Before COVID, as Lee told the magazine, "cancer vaccines w
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Lennard Lee, a UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford, calls himself just a “simple doctor,” but he’s anything but. During the pandemic, he led clinical efforts that showed it was still safe to give cancer patients chemotherapy, disproving fears that the coronavirus made this too risky, helping to maintain cancer treatment worldwide. He also delivered UK research that showed lateral flow testing was effective in identifying the
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The Trump administration appears to have reached a bridge too far. On Thursday, the White House withdrew its nomination of former Florida congressman and physician Dave Weldon to take charge of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Axios was the first to report on the withdrawal, occurring mere minutes before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee was to hold a meeting discussing Weldon’s nomination. Throughout his legislative career, Weldon questioned the s
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The current measles outbreak in West Texas has spread to neighboring states New Mexico and Oklahoma, and the Centers for Disease Control warns that "more cases are expected as this outbreak continues to expand rapidly." There are now 258 total cases across the three states, according to CNN. It's not only those three states, however. Measles cases have been reported in Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, per AP.
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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Employees at the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, received internal guidance last week to flag manuscripts, presentations or other communications for scrutiny if they addressed “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics. Among the 23 hot-button issues, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica: vaccines, fluoride, peanut allergies, autism. While it’s not uncommon for the cancer
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Image by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Developments Twenty-five years after it was declared eliminated from the US thanks to a nationwide and highly effective vaccination program, a measles outbreak in Texas has health experts raising the alarm bells. As of Monday, there have been 146 confirmed cases in the state, including one death of a school-aged child, in the "first measles-related fatality in the United States in over a decade," according to a statement by Robert Kennedy Jr., the Trum
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In an early clinical trial, an experimental norovirus vaccine given as a pill produced defensive responses exactly where it counts—in the saliva of older people most vulnerable to the explosive stomach bug. The results, published this week in Science Translational Medicine, are another step in the long effort to thwart the gruesome germ, which finds a way to violently hollow out innards wherever people go—from restaurants to natural wonders and even the high seas. It's a robust, extremely infec
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US Health Secretary and long-standing anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing criticism for his equivocal response to the raging measles outbreak in West Texas, which as of Tuesday has grown to 159 cases, with 22 hospitalizations and one child death. While public health officials would like to see a resounding endorsement of the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine as the best way to protect children and vulnerable community members from further spread of the extremely infect
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Though measles was declared "eliminated" in the United States in 2000, it has never fully gone away. In 2025, the country has seen three outbreaks already (which the Centers for Disease Control defines as three or more cases), and the virus has continued to spread. As of the end of February, more than 160 cases have been reported across Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Rhode Island and Texas, with one death in Texas (an unvaccinated school-aged child
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As part of a new $1 billion plan to address bird flu in poultry and lower egg prices across the country, US secretary of agriculture Brooke Rollins announced Wednesday that the Department of Agriculture is considering vaccinating chickens against highly pathogenic avian influenza. The US has dealt with flare-ups of bird flu in the past, but the current outbreak has been raging since 2022. The virus has been detected in wild birds in every state, which go on to expose commercial poultry and othe
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The Trump regime seems to be doing everything it can to give the seasonal flu a helping hand. The Food and Drug Administration has reportedly canceled a meeting next month meant to help decide the mix of influenza strains that should be included in next winter’s flu vaccine. Earlier this week, the FDA emailed members of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) about the cancelled meeting, previously set to take place March 13, The New York Times reported on Wedne
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Ninety cases of measles have been reported in Texas in less than a month, marking the worst outbreak of the disease in the border state in more than 30 years. At least 16 people have been admitted to the hospital. Nine cases of measles have also been reported in the neighboring state of New Mexico. According to officials at the Texas Department of State Health Services, the outbreak has been concentrated in the northwest of the state. At least 77 of these cases are in children, with 26 being 4
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Well that didn’t take long. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the just-enshrined director of the Department of Health and Human Services, has already signaled that he may try to change the country’s vaccination schedule for children. RFK Jr. made the remarks during his speech at a ceremony held on Tuesday welcoming him as the new HHS secretary. He announced that he would form a commission to study the childhood vaccine schedule as a possible factor for the increase of chronic diseases in Americans, among
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