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Vaccine critic RFK Jr. backs measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , a, voiced support for the measles vaccine Sunday .

An unvaccinated in Texas was the first U.S. fatality from the highly contagious disease in a decade .

Kennedy has previously made false and misleading claims about the safety of the measles, mumps, and rubella ( MMR ) vaccine.

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