{"id":9377,"date":"2025-05-06T21:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2025-05-06T21:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:11:27","slug":"the-mmr-vaccine-doesnt-contain-aborted-fetus-debris-as-rfk-jr-has-claimed-heres-the-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/06\/the-mmr-vaccine-doesnt-contain-aborted-fetus-debris-as-rfk-jr-has-claimed-heres-the-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The MMR vaccine doesn\u2019t contain \u2018aborted fetus debris\u2019, as RFK Jr has claimed. Here\u2019s the\u00a0science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-mmr-vaccine-doesnt-contain-aborted-fetus-debris-as-rfk-jr-has-claimed-heres-the-science-255718\">The Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the United States\u2019 top public health official,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/01\/rfk-mmr-vaccines-fetus-claim\">recently claimed<\/a>\u00a0some religious groups avoid the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine because it contains \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w4i7kGh63jo\">aborted fetus debris<\/a>\u201d and \u201cDNA particles\u201d. The US is facing its worst measles outbreaks in years with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-05-02\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-revives-measles-vaccine-claims\/105242968\">nearly 900 cases<\/a>&nbsp;across the country and active outbreaks in several states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, Kennedy, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, continues to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/wtf-rfk-jr-even-talking-133618630.html\">erode trust in vaccines<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what can we make of his latest claims?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-mmr-vaccine-doesnt-contain-aborted-fetus-debris-as-rfk-jr-has-claimed-heres-the-science-255718\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conversation Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the United States\u2019 top public health official,\u00a0recently claimed\u00a0some religious groups avoid the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine because it contains \u201caborted fetus debris\u201d and \u201cDNA particles\u201d. The US is facing its worst measles outbreaks in years with&nbsp;nearly 900 cases&nbsp;across the country and active outbreaks in several states. At [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"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\/9377","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=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9378,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions\/9378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}