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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just months later, as measles raged across Samoa in the fall of 2019, Kennedy wrote in a four-page letter to the prime minister that the measles vaccine itself might have created a new strain that ...

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.

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators that his 2019 trip to Samoa ahead of its fatal measles crisis was not related to vaccines—despite connections he made with ...