On four separate occasions, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, has suggested that the measles outbreak in Texas, which is now over 500 cases, is beginning to subside and grow more slowly. But a review of state data indicates there’s no decline yet in the pace of cases.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confronting his first disease outbreak as Health and Human Services secretary. His response to the spread of measles in and beyond Texas has managed to alarm serious scientists while also drawing criticism from his Make America Healthy Again movement.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a stop in Texas on Sunday and visited the family of a 6-year-old girl who died of the measles virus in February.

Kennedy confirmed the visit to Texas in a post on X in which he encouraged people to get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine amid rising measles cases.

An endorsement of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has provoked an angry outcry from anti-vaccine activists.

In 2000, following widespread vaccination, the U.S. eliminated measles, a highly contagious disease that can cause serious health complications. With elimination, measles no longer circulates regularly in the country, but outbreaks still occur when travelers are infected abroad and then encounter pockets of susceptible people. Most often, the travelers are unvaccinated and returning to the U.S.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) terminated more than $330 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and gender research in the state of California alone, Fox News Digital learned Thursday. 

"HHS terminated more than $330 million in wasteful research funding to organizations in California that is not aligned with NIH and HHS priorities," HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a Thursday statement to Fox News Digital. 

A confirmed case of measles in Washington, D.C. is being investigated by health officials after the contagious person visited several locations in the district. The DC Department of Health warned the public of the potential exposure in a press release shared late Tuesday morning. TENNESSEE REPORTS FIRST MEASLES CASE AMID U.S. OUTBREAK According to the release, those who were in the following places in the district at the listed times may have been exposed: Measles is a highly contagious virus that spreads through the air when an infected person coughs...

Though Texas health officials have been unable to pinpoint the source of the measles outbreak that began in a Gaines County Mennonite community, there is no evidence connecting it to illegal immigration. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases and can be safely prevented with two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine. 

The viral disease causes a high fever, rash and other symptoms. Although most cases aren’t serious, even patients with mild disease are miserable, and there is a relatively high rate of complications and death. 

In the midst of a growing measles outbreak in Texas that has killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly focused on vitamin A, including from cod liver oil, and two non-standard medications as treatments for measles.