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Jessica Glenza

RFK Jr sparks alarm after backing vitamins to treat measles amid outbreak

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Robert F Kennedy Jr listens as Donald Trump holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington on 26 February. Photograph: AP

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, has caused alarm among pediatricians, vaccine experts and lawmakers with an opinion piece that focuses on vitamin A and nutrition as treatments for measles.

In response to a measles outbreak in Texas, which resulted in the first American measles death in nearly a decade, Kennedy wrote for Fox News about the benefits of “good nutrition” and vitamin A – but did not explicitly recommend highly effective vaccines.

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