{"id":34991,"date":"2025-03-04T18:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/rfk-jr-sparks-alarm-after-backing-vitamins-to-treat-measles-amid-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:13:59","slug":"rfk-jr-sparks-alarm-after-backing-vitamins-to-treat-measles-amid-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/rfk-jr-sparks-alarm-after-backing-vitamins-to-treat-measles-amid-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr sparks alarm after backing vitamins to treat measles amid outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health experts wary as US health secretary fails to endorse effective vaccines and instead calls them a \u2018personal choice\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a>, the US health secretary, has caused alarm among pediatricians, vaccine experts and lawmakers with an opinion piece that focuses on vitamin A and nutrition as treatments for measles.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a measles outbreak in Texas, which resulted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/26\/texas-measles-outbreak-cases\">first American measles death<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/jul\/10\/vaccines-measles-outbreak-immune-system\">nearly a decade<\/a>, Kennedy wrote for Fox News about the benefits of \u201cgood nutrition\u201d and vitamin A \u2013 but did not explicitly recommend highly effective vaccines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/04\/rfk-jr-vitamins-measles-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health experts wary as US health secretary fails to endorse effective vaccines and instead calls them a \u2018personal choice\u2019 Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, has caused alarm among pediatricians, vaccine experts and lawmakers with an opinion piece that focuses on vitamin A and nutrition as treatments for measles. In response to a &#8230; <a title=\"RFK Jr sparks alarm after backing vitamins to treat measles amid outbreak\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/rfk-jr-sparks-alarm-after-backing-vitamins-to-treat-measles-amid-outbreak\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RFK Jr sparks alarm after backing vitamins to treat measles amid outbreak\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}