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The Highest Rate of Measles in Over Three Decades.

WAKE UP AMERICA.

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Joshua Powell
Jul 29, 2025
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July 29, 2025

The body count is climbing. Three Americans are now dead from measles—the first U.S. deaths from this entirely preventable disease since 2015. Meanwhile, 1,319 confirmed cases rage across 40 states, representing a staggering 362% increase from last year and the highest annual count since 1992. This isn't just a public health crisis—it's a spectacular failure of leadership that has transformed one of America's greatest medical achievements into a cautionary tale about what happens when conspiracy theories meet government authority.

At the center of this preventable catastrophe sits Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a man whose decades-long crusade against vaccines has found its most powerful platform yet in the federal government. Under Kennedy's watch, the United States now faces the very real possibility of losing its measles elimination status, a designation earned through decades of scientific progress that Kennedy has systematically dismantled …

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