{"id":9421,"date":"2025-05-13T19:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9421"},"modified":"2025-05-13T19:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:15:56","slug":"heres-why-kennedy-says-the-mumps-vaccine-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/13\/heres-why-kennedy-says-the-mumps-vaccine-doesnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Why Kennedy Says the Mumps Vaccine Doesn&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/exclusives\/115496\">MedPage Today<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZofNzZ8UoPk\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"interview with Dr. Philopens in a new tab or window, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview with Dr. Philopens in a new tab or window<\/a>&nbsp;in late April, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the bold claim that &#8220;the mumps part&#8221; of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine &#8220;has never worked.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He went on to reference a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/appellate-courts\/ca3\/23-2553\/23-2553-2024-08-06.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"whistleblower lawsuitopens in a new tab or window, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whistleblower lawsuitopens in a new tab or window<\/a>&nbsp;that claimed Merck falsified data about the mumps portion of the vaccine &#8212; which was ultimately &#8220;thrown out on a technicality,&#8221; Kennedy said. &#8220;But we learned a lot about that vaccine that is disturbing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/exclusives\/115496\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPage Today During an&nbsp;interview with Dr. Philopens in a new tab or window&nbsp;in late April, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the bold claim that &#8220;the mumps part&#8221; of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine &#8220;has never worked.&#8221; He went on to reference a&nbsp;whistleblower lawsuitopens in a new tab or window&nbsp;that claimed Merck [&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-9421","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\/9421","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=9421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9422,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421\/revisions\/9422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}