{"id":2905,"date":"2025-04-06T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/rfk-jr-measles-statement-west-texas-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T23:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:02:24","slug":"rfk-jr-measles-statement-west-texas-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/rfk-jr-measles-statement-west-texas-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Most effective way\u2019 to prevent measles is vaccination, RFK Jr. says, in most direct remarks yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Most effective way\u2019 to prevent measles is vaccination, RFK Jr. says, in most direct remarks yet
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WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Sunday that \u201cthe most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine,\u201d his most direct statement yet<\/a> on the issue, following the death of a second child of the condition in the outbreak in West Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kennedy, who has long described the vaccine as dangerous, has largely avoided endorsing its use since the start of the outbreak, and he stopped short of explicitly saying he \u201crecommended\u201d it in his latest remarks, as public health officials have called on him to do. But the statement, issued on the social media platform X, appeared to be well-received among observers hoping he would use more forceful language.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u2018Most effective way\u2019 to prevent measles is vaccination, RFK Jr. says, in most direct remarks yet WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Sunday that \u201cthe most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine,\u201d his most direct statement yet on the issue, following the death of a second child […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2216,1428,2179,2144,2180,2149,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-health","category-infectious-disease","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}