The US has now recorded over 300 measles cases just three months into 2025, exceeding the yearly case counts for all years after 2019. The bulk of this year's cases are from an outbreak that erupted in an undervaccinated county in West Texas in late January, which has since spread to New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Meanwhile ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr Downplays Measles Vaccine as Cases Surge (March 17, 2025)
www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com
... A growing measles outbreak has led to 222 reported cases across Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma in 2025, with health officials urging more people to get vaccinated.
During an interview with Fox News, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. encouraged vaccination but also made misleading statements about vaccine-induced immunity, CNN reported.
"When you and I were kids, everybody got measles, and measles gave you ... lifetime protection against measles infection. The vaccine doesn't do that. The vaccine is effective for some people for life, but for many people, it wanes," Kennedy said in the interview.
Dr. Paul Offit -- director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who recently spoke with HealthDay about COVID -- said that if vaccine-induced immunity waned significantly, measles would not have been declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000. ...
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