Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Kelly Grant
Publication Date: May 8, 2025 - 17:12
Vaccine expert Peter Hotez on the resurgence of measles, antivaccination movement and RFK Jr.
May 8, 2025
Canada has seen more cases of the measles this year than at any time since the wildly contagious disease was eliminated here in 1998, a resurgence experts chalk up to falling vaccination rates. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and a professor at Baylor College of Medicine, has for years warned of the dangers of the anti-vaccine movement. Dr. Hotez, whose latest book is The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science, is in Winnipeg this week. He spoke with health reporter Kelly Grant about measles, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and whether he would ever consider leaving the United States. Ontario reports 200 new measles cases as province struggles to contain outbreak
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