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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an X post Friday that ending the major measles outbreak in Texas is a “top priority for me and my extraordinary team at HHS.” “I recognize the serious impact of this outbreak on families, children, and healthcare workers,” he wrote. The outbreak made headlines after an unvaccinated child in rural West Texas died from the virus Tuesday night, the first US death from the highly contagious respiratory disease since 2015. The following day, Kennedy described the situation as “not...

Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles outbreak A school-age child with measles died in Texas this week, making it the first measles death in the U.S. in 10 years. This child was one of dozens of unvaccinated kids infected with measles in a multi-county, two-state outbreak of an illness the U.S. had officially eliminated 25 years ago. As Texas and New Mexico public health officials respond dutifully with vaccine clinics, contact tracing and exposure...

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. A doctor has accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, of downplaying a measles outbreak in Texas by saying outbreaks are "not unusual" in the United States. On Tuesday, an unvaccinated child died from measles in Texas, state officials announced, marking the first fatality from the disease in the U.S. since 2015. Kennedy, who was confirmed as health secretary on February 13, previously faced...

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The measles outbreak in Texas has now turned deadly. Texas and federal health officials have just reported the first deaths attributed to the still-growing outbreak, which has sickened over a hundred people. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported the tragic death of an unvaccinated “school-aged” child Wednesday morning. In the first cabinet meeting of the second Trump Administration held Wednesday afternoon, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, stated that two deaths from measles have occurred so far, though he provided no...