The government list of recommended immunizations for children, maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...

Under RFK Jr.'s conspiracy-minded, anti-scientific leadership, health agencies have halted research into vaccine hesitancy, ...

Salk believed a killed-virus vaccine was the best approach to combat polio. Most other virologists disagreed with him. They favored a weakened live-virus vaccine that was predicted to be more ...

Blakeslee, the agency’s science writer, outlined how researchers at Johns Hopkins and Yale universities discovered that polio “strikes first in our blood instead of our nerves” and that “there is a ...

Photo: Jordan Strauss/Associated Press/Brian Snyder/Reuters Can Robert F. Kennedy Jr. get his vaccine message straight? Mere days after declaring vaccines are the “most effective way to prevent ...

There are two types of polio vaccine in use. One is the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), and the other the live-attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV). The IPV is made by “killing ...

Kennedy Jr. called for people to get the measles vaccine while in the same breath ... “The problem with RFK Jr. is his definition of ‘placebo,’” Offit said. “His definition of placebo ...

On Sunday, Kennedy endorsed the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, known as the MMR shot, amid an outbreak that has resulted in the deaths of two children and sickened hundreds of people.

claiming that no vaccine is “safe and effective,” and suggesting that the polio vaccine was responsible for killing “many, many, many, many, many more people than polio.” After being ...

One was another child and the other person was an adult. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine advocate who President Donald Trump tapped to be secretary of Health and Human Services, visited the ...

Kennedy Jr. is facing pushback from his Make America Healthy Again fans after endorsing the measles vaccine as “the most ... We deserve better than RFK, Jr. He demonstrated his incompetence ...

“He said, ‘You don’t know what’s in the vaccine anymore,’” Peter Hildebrand, whose 8-year-old daughter, Daisy’s, funeral had been held just hours earlier, told me. “I actually ...