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RFK Jr. misled the US Senate on measles deaths, Samoa's health chief says (abcnews.go.com)
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Published on: 03/02/2025 | 19:22:32

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"We don’t know what was killing them," Samoa's top health official says. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says some who died in the country's 2019 measles epidemic didn't have the disease. The cause of the 83 deaths — mostly of children under age 5 — is unclear. The Samoan official wasn't the health chief during the outbreak, but confirmed key details with his predecessor. Only one autopsy was carried out and no postmortem tissue samples were sent abroad, which was not unusual because measles is a simple disease to diagnose. Ekeroma rejected that assertion, referring to social media posts by anti-vaccine advocates who posed for photos with Kennedy during his trip. Kennedy emboldened anti-vaccine contacts in Samoa, Ekeroma said. The epidemic was fueled by disinformation in social media posts in the island nation and abroad.

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