WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Samoa's top health official on Monday denounced as "a complete lie" remarks that Robert F. Kennedy ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Samoa’s top health official on Monday denounced as “a complete lie” remarks that Robert F. Kennedy ...

Senators grilled Trump's health secretary pick over his 2019 Samoa trip, accusing him of downplaying his role in the epidemic ...

Samoa’s director general of health has denounced as “a complete lie” Robert F Kennedy Jr’s comments in the US Senate last week about the country’s 2019 measles epidemic. President Trump ...

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 caused by low vaccination coverage. Kennedy's nomination to ...

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Ekeroma, a medical doctor who also holds a doctorate in health, said that the claim was a “huge denial” of the fact that doctors from several countries traveled to Samoa to treat measles patients.

In 2019, a devastating measles outbreak erupted in Samoa. Eighty-three people, most of them children, died. Another 5,000 contracted the disease. In total, around 3% of the small island’s population ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, faced tough questioning from Democrats on Wednesday over his criticism of vaccines and his ...