As measles cases surge past quadruple digits for the first time in three decades, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been defending religious vaccine refusal and spreading pseudoscience on Fox News.
"The MMR vaccine that we currently use has millions of particles that were created from aborted fetal tissue, millions of DNA fragments," RFK Jr. told Fox News host Bret Baier in a report aired on Thursday.
As of May 8, the CDC confirmed a total of 1,001 measles cases have already been detected in 2025, a sharp increase from the 285 reported in all of 2024. So far, three people have died from the disease.