New York, Sept 18, 2025 (AFP) - US medical panel insists it's 'pro-vaccine'

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2025-09-18

A US panel stacked with figures sympathetic to the anti-vaccine movement opened a highly politicized meeting Thursday on the defensive, insisting that they are "pro-vaccine" even as public health experts fear the group is set to upend longstanding medical advice. President Donald Trump's top health official, the anti-vax crusader Robert F. Kennedy Jr., handpicked the members of the medical advisory group that will vote on whether to alter the sta......

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