{"id":10046,"date":"2025-08-13T17:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10046"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:09:22","slug":"measles-outbreak-in-us-prompts-questions-over-robert-f-kennedy-juniors-mixed-messages-on-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/13\/measles-outbreak-in-us-prompts-questions-over-robert-f-kennedy-juniors-mixed-messages-on-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles outbreak in US prompts questions over Robert F Kennedy Junior&#8217;s mixed messages on vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-08-11\/measles-outbreak-us-robert-f-kennedy-jr-vaccination-messages\/105628576\">ABC (Australia)<\/a> US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has regularly told Americans they should not take medical advice from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My opinions about vaccines are irrelevant,&#8221; he told Congress in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But under his watch a vaccine-preventable disease has continued to spread, with more than 1,300 cases in 40 states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measles outbreak that began amongst a rural West Texas Mennonite community with a low vaccine uptake has so far resulted in three confirmed deaths across the country. &#8220;We&#8217;re having a meltdown around measles in the United States right now, it is a full crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Brewer is one of seven experts who determine whether the United States has maintained elimination over a 12-month period.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC (Australia) US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has regularly told Americans they should not take medical advice from him. &#8220;My opinions about vaccines are irrelevant,&#8221; he told Congress in May. But under his watch a vaccine-preventable disease has continued to spread, with more than 1,300 cases in 40 states. The measles outbreak that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10047,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions\/10047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}