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There is so much wrong with this statement by Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary RFK Jr.

1) Autism isn’t a chronic disease. It isn’t even a disease.

2) Autism doesn’t lead to someone potentially developing fatal encephalitis (brain swelling) or pneumonia.

3) Autism doesn’t require urgent medical hospitalization (which measles can) & stress the healthcare system.

3) Autism doesn’t spread from person-to-person in the air.

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"We've had two measles deaths in 20 years in this country - we have 100,000 autism diagnoses every year," he said. "We need to keep our eye on the ball. Chronic disease is our enemy." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/health/measles-texas-kennedy-fox.html Accessed: 10 March 2025 at 1636 MST
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Also, per the CDC, there have been 2 probable #measles deaths in the #USA this year.

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

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Measles Cases and Outbreaks

Find the latest numbers of confirmed U.S. measles cases. CDC updates this page weekly
Measles (Rubeola)
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Per the NIH, “measles outbreaks are increasingly occurring” in the #USA and “measles cases have considerable morbidity requiring hospitalization.”

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~ Inpatient morbidity and mortality of measles in the United States ~
(from 2020)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7188204/
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It’s true that the measles generally has a low mortality rate in the #USA, but that doesn’t mean it is something to fool around with.

The effect of disease is more than mortality (death). It’s about morbidity (illness, chronic illness) too.

And the #measles can make someone VERY ill.

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~ Measles rarely kills in the US – but when it does, here’s how ~
(from 2019)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/health/how-measles-kills-explainer/index.html
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