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Utah reports more than 600 measles cases as outbreak spreads across US

vaccination rates. The situation has also been further complicated by the [spread of misinformation](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/19/rfk-jr-anti-vaccine-group-measles-outbreak). Robert F Kennedy Jr

US measles cases pass 2,000 as outbreak nears worst in decades

vaccine misinformation and disinformation.” In early 2025, US poison control centers reported a 38.7% increase in exposures to vitamin A, while internet searches surged for the unproven treatment, touted by [Robert F Kennedy Jr

RFK Jr faces intense questions in US Senate on measles and flu deaths

Robert F Kennedy Jr](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr), faced intense questioning from several US senators on Wednesday during a hearing largely focused on how the administration has responded to the [measles outbreak](https://www.theguardian.com/society/mmr)

Ebola, hantavirus: Is the world prepared for the next pandemic?

Robert F Kennedy Jr, US health secretary, is among those leaders who often promotes unverified claims about the dangers of vaccines and also opposed the COVID vaccine. In the report for the BMJ, authors Anna

RFK Jr accused of ‘dangerous conspiracy theories’ at heated budget hearing

Robert F Kennedy Jr](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr) on Thursday before the US House ways and means committee. Kennedy, the controversial health secretary and a longtime vaccine opponent, has overseen sweeping changes to routine vaccination recommendations

US ‘drowning in misinformation’ under RFK Jr, autism advocates say

Misinformation from top health officials in the [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) has created a “crisis of public trust” – and Congress should conduct oversight hearings and possibly impeach officials such as [Robert F Kennedy Jr

Three studies used by RFK Jr and allies to justify controversial vaccine policies changes facing new scrutiny

Robert F Kennedy Jr](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr), the US health secretary who has been a leader in the anti-vaccine movement for decades, relied on two of the studies that are now facing scrutiny

As federal government pulls back, Colorado charts independent course with vaccines

misinformation, Carol joined an outreach coalition and is publicly sharing her story about being hospitalized with polio when she was 5. She never recovered full function in her right arm. **Kevin J. Beaty/Colorado Public Radio/Denverite

Rubio criticizes WHO’s Ebola response as US continues sweeping public health cuts

vaccines, diagnostic testing, and public health and hospital responses we would need to protect Americans.” On Sunday, the WHO announced that the Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda was a “public health emergency

‘Uncharted territory’: uncertainty as US vaccine guidance falls apart under Trump

Robert F Kennedy Jr](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr), the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and a longtime vaccine opponent. Brian Murphy, a US district court judge, issued a stay

‘People should be talking about it’: moves to curtail vaccine information obscures important science, doctors say

misinformation” at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The decisions threaten the reputations of US health agencies and the public’s trust in science and policy – and the surrounding tumult threatens to obscure important information

What is a radical? It's the question of M.I.A.'s vexing career

vaccine skeptic](https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/mia-anti-vaxxer-twitter-coronavirus.html). Fans have despaired that she has abandoned her post as a radical artist, whose world-coalescing music once appeared to push progressivism. But fundamentally, she remains the same kind