Local officials in Samoa don't blame Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's HHS pick, for measles deaths, but critics call his actions "harmful." ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators that his trip to the country later hit by a measles outbreak had "nothing" to do with ...

During confirmation hearings in January 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely denied that a 2019 trip he took to Samoa had anything to do with vaccines. In 2019, Samoa experienced a measles outbreak ...

Dr. Alec Ekeroma calls Kennedy's comments about Samoa's 2019 measles epidemic “a complete lie” and "total fabrication." ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa’s top health official on Monday denounced as “a complete lie” remarks that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made during his bid to become U.S. health secretary, rejecting his ...

Kennedy Jr. repeated a denial he has made on numerous occasions: that a trip he took to Samoa in 2019 directly preceding a deadly measles outbreak there had "nothing to do with vaccines." RFK JR: I ...

But to Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii, the measles outbreak on neighboring Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly babies and children, was a preventable catastrophe wrought by the man President Trump now ...

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in the year 2000 due to an effective vaccine. But a quarter century ...

Samoa's director general of health says Robert F Kennedy Junior's comments in the US Senate about the 2019 measles outbreak ...