Instead of vaccines, RFK Jr. focuses on unconventional measles treatments, driving worries about misinformation | CNN As a measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, the response from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has leaned heavily on treatment with vitamin A, as well as “good results” from the use of the steroid budesonide, the antibiotic clarithromycin and cod liver oil. Neha Mukherjee CNN

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Doctors say that this messaging might take away from efforts to increase vaccination, and some misinformation about these therapies is already circulating online.

CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington | CNN The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources. CNN

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