With RFK Jr. at his side, a measles outbreak could prove ‘politically perilous' for Trump (1 Viewer)

[Jonathan Allen, Julie Tsirkin and Laura Strickler]

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of well-established vaccines, said Wednesday that his department is tracking an outbreak of measles that has infected more than 100 people and killed a child in Texas. But he played down the consequence of the resurgence — 25 years after the disease had been thought to have been eradicated in the U.S.

"We're following the measles epidemic every day," Kennedy said during President Donald Trump's first Cabinet meeting since being sworn in Jan. 20. “Incidentally, there have...

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