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AP report: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then a prominent anti-vaccine activist, preempted the 2019 visit with a letter to the Samoan prime minister requesting to study the Pacific island nation's measles, mumps and rubella vaccines after the deaths of two children who had received them. In the letter, he used the words vaccine or vaccination eight times.

AP report: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that

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