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

Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat. Ekeroma, a medical doctor who also holds a doctorate in health, said that the claim was a ...

Fake gravestones to signify the Samoa Measles victims of 2019 sit in the grass outside the US ... [+] Capitol as concerned doctors, nurses, and health care advocates from across the country join ...

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

But to Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii, the measles outbreak on neighboring Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly babies and children, was a preventable catastrophe wrought by the man President Trump now ...

Kennedy's 2019 visit to Samoa has recently brought fresh attention to his history of activism focused on raising questions about the safety and effectiveness of the measles vaccine — because his ...

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, Samoa experienced a measles outbreak caused by low vaccination coverage. Kennedy's nomination to be President Donald Trump's health and human services secretary has brought the talking ...

During his Senate hearings earlier this month, he also suggested that a deadly 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa wasn’t actually caused by measles, a claim that Samoa’s director-general of health ...

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited in June 2019, Samoa was on the brink of crisis. The government had suspended measles vaccinations the year before after an improperly prepared vaccine killed two ...