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Eco · Climate policy · published 2026-08-27 · via The Guardian

Documents suggest RFK Jr misled Congress about Samoa trip

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Newly obtained letters indicate that US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr wrote to Samoa's prime minister before his 2019 visit, explicitly proposing to study the MMR vaccine, contradicting his Senate testimony that the trip had 'nothing to do with vaccines'. The visit occurred months before a measles outbreak that killed 83 people. The documents raise concerns about Kennedy's truthfulness during his confirmation hearings.

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The letter to Samoa's prime minister explicitly proposed a health informatics assessment of the MMR vaccine, referencing two child deaths that may have stemmed from manufacturing problems. This came after the Samoan government had suspended all vaccinations for ten months, following the manslaughter convictions of two nurses who improperly mixed the vaccine.

Kennedy's Senate testimony claimed the trip was unrelated to vaccines, yet the letter uses vaccine-related terms eight times

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