Retiring Guy's Digest: GET ME REWRITE: Anti-vaxxer @HHSgov head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. celebrates major outbreak of measles in South Carolina

In his own inimitable way.

Headline: CNN Health, 1/28/2025

Meg Tirrell , Deidre McPhillips, and Jamie Gumbrecht report:

With 789 cases reported as of Tuesday, the South Carolina outbreak surpassed a massive outbreak in Texas, which reached 762 cases before it ended in August last year. Two children died during the outbreak in Texas.

South Carolina, which first reported cases in October, has added more than 600 cases in 2026 alone. At least 18 people – adults and children – have been hospitalized for complications of measles, the state health department said Tuesday, and no deaths have been reported.

[snip]

The CDC said on Friday that there have been 416 confirmed measles cases reported in the US so far in 2026, but its update included data up until Thursday, before South Carolina’s latest numbers came in. At least 14 states have reported a confirmed measles case so far this year, and another large outbreak continues to grow along the Arizona-Utah border. [emphasis added]

The spread of measles over the past year has left the US at risk of losing elimination status, which the Pan American Health Organization could decide to revoke when it meets in April.

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