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The ‘strangling angel’ returns? RFK Jr.’s policies could foster a resurgence of now-rare diseases


If Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine views continue to be the basis for public health policy, communities should prepare for diseases that have been gone for decades to reemerge.

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