ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Shapiro, RFK Jr. spar over measles and vaccines
The ensuing insults launched between Shapiro and Kennedy happened both on social media and during separate press conferences this week.
The ensuing insults launched between Shapiro and Kennedy happened both on social media and during separate press conferences this week.
According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, "once symptoms start, the disease progresses rapidly and usually causes death within about five days."
The conflict, which largely falls along political lines, centers on the details of one of the deaths, in a newborn.
A feud between the Pennsylvania governor and health secretary sparked by this week's reports of measles-related deaths laid bare the increasingly polarized politics of public health.
Scientists have recently documented the bacteria spreading to places that were once too cold for it to survive.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D.) is being accused of “fearmongering” and engaging in “deliberate deception” after announcing on Tuesday that two “unvaccinated” residents in Lancaster […] Source
MS NOW Senior Reporter Josh Einiger says the White House's rhetoric over vaccines has a "clear link" to the drop in vaccination rates and the rise in measles cases nationwide. 2026 has seen the most cases of measles in the U.S. in 35 years.
The coroner, Parsons said, confirmed that an infant who passed away "had measles" but did not "die of measles." "They have zero measles deaths," Parsons said of the coroner's office.
Two deaths in Pennsylvania on Tuesday marked the first measles-associated deaths of 2026. It follows years of disinformation about the safety and efficacy of the measles vaccine from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. MS NOW’s JM Rieger digs into the archive.