RFK Shrugs At “Not Unusual” Texas Measles Outbreak As His Anti-Vax Group Blames MMR Vaccine [VIDEO]

NBC News reports:

As a measles outbreak sweeps through Texas, officially sickening 124 people, mostly unvaccinated children, and hospitalizing 18, anti-vaccine groups are pushing a familiar and false theory: The highly contagious virus is being caused by the vaccine itself.

“The narrative is that it’s a failure to vaccinate when we know it is a failing vaccine,” said Sayer Ji, a self-described natural health and wellness thought leader who is not a doctor. He outlined his theory Monday during an interview on the internet morning show from Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit formerly led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“It is no coincidence in my mind that Bobby gets confirmed to be secretary of HHS, and immediately we have a measles outbreak,” said Children’s Health Defense’s director of programming, Polly Tommey, who is the mother of an adult child whom she says was injured by the MMR vaccine. “Parent to parent, do not go anywhere near that vaccine.”

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The measles outbreak in Texas has claimed its first victim, an unvaccinated school-aged child. Secretary Kennedy refuses to recommend the measles vaccine, insisting that chicken soup is more effective.

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