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Measles on the rise and vaccination rates falling; EPA to be gutted of its crucial research function. Key US politics stories from Saturday 19 July at a glance

Measles cases are at their highest rate in the US in decades. Robert F Kennedy doesn’t seem too bothered

Blindness, pneumonia, severe diarrhoea and even death – measles virus infections, especially in children, can have devastating consequences. Fortunately, we have a safe and effective defence. Measles vaccines are estimated to have averted more than 60 million deaths between 2000 and 2023.

Declining health budgets and the spread of misinformation are putting children in the UK at risk of measles, as Rebecca Thomas reports

Health officials say complacency around routine vaccinations can make it easier for misinformation to take hold.

U.N. health officials reported that more than 14 million children did not receive a single vaccine last year

More than 14m children globally have not had single routine jab as figures show less than 90% of those eligible in UK had first MMR last year

The Health Secretary said ‘no child in this country should be dying of measles’.

Nearly 30 years after Andrew Wakefield’s discredited study linking the MMR vaccine and autism, we badly need an injection of rationality