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RFK Jr: Making America Hospitalized Again

Alternetamerica.com reports:

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is so worried about what’s in vaccines that he never checked what was in the lettuce.

As of August 20, the CDC has confirmed 2,777 measles cases across 47 states in 2026, already surpassing all of last year. Two people died this week in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, both unvaccinated. They were the first measles deaths of 2026, following three in 2025, which were the first in the country since 2015.

At the same time, more than 17,000 Americans have been sickened by cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection traced primarily to contaminated iceberg lettuce from a processor in central Mexico. The outbreak has resulted in at least 495 hospitalizations and two deaths in Michigan. During the same period last year, there were 1,180 cases.

At least 431 people in 31 states got sick this summer alone from a salmonella outbreak linked to jalapeño peppers imported from Mexico, after the contaminated product was served at Chipotle and QDOBA locations. Another July outbreak linked to eggs resulted in a recall of more than 1.5 million dozen. And since January, a third tied to backyard poultry has made more than 500 people sick in 43 states.

Kennedy’s HHS decimated the infrastructure that would otherwise catch these outbreaks sooner. He oversaw the CDC’s FoodNet program dropping mandatory reporting for six of the eight pathogens it once tracked, and more than 200 consumer safety specialists left the FDA including dozens tasked with food safety. The grocery industry also successfully lobbied the FDA to delay its Food Traceability Rule for two and a half years.

My comments:

What further proof of Robert F.Kennedy Jr.’s incompetence do you need?
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And, bypassing USDA inspections for pathogens in meat could make things even worse!. Letting ranchers do their own inspections, what could go wrong??

Trump suggests cattle ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected meat plants.

Hamburger E. coli Was 95 Percent of My Practice Until Federal Inspection Ended It. On-Farm Slaughter Would Bring It Back. August 28, 2026

I started this work in January 1993, representing children sickened in the Jack in the Box outbreak. Hundreds were sick. Four children died. From that outbreak until the ConAgra recall in the summer of 2002, at least 95 percent of Marler Clark’s revenue came from E. coli cases linked to hamburger. I could count on a significant ground beef outbreak and recall arriving like clockwork every spring or summer. In 2002 I wrote an op-ed for the Denver Post asking the beef industry and USDA to put me out of business.

They largely did it. Ground beef E. coli is now close to zero as a share of what this firm does, and I have said so in print more than once. The millions the industry spent on interventions and the work of a generation of food safety professionals made the difference. It is the single best thing that has happened in food safety in my lifetime, and I do not say that grudgingly.
https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/hamburger-e-coli-was-95-percent-of-my-practice-until-federal-inspection-ended-it-on-farm-slaughter-would-bring-it-back/

 
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