United States: Scientific proof disproving vaccine-autism connections did not halt the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from investigating potential vaccine-caused autism. 

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Records show that Trump administration officials sent the study request to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

Before his time as president, Donald Trump, alongside his HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., advocated that vaccines triggered autism despite scientific evidence refuting this claim for countless years. 

According to HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon, “As President Trump said in his Joint Address to Congress, the rate of autism in American children has skyrocketed. CDC will leave no stone unturned in its mission to figure out what exactly is happening. The American people expect high quality research and transparency and that is what CDC is delivering,” US News reported. 

The rates of autism diagnosis have shown substantial growth throughout recent decades. 

The United States currently reports that one out of thirty-six children receives an autism diagnosis, while eleven states show data indicating that autism affected one out of 150 children back in the year 2000. 

Experimental data and revisions to diagnostic categories made by physicians explain most of the detected increase in autism spectrum disorders. 

Factors impacting autism 

Scientists continue research to uncover whether genes and environmental elements influence autism development. 

Most scientific experts unanimously agree that autism does not arise from vaccine administration. A vast amount of research involving hundreds of thousands of children has disproved this connection. 

Scientific evidence from 2019 research involving half a million Danish children proved that the measles mumps, along with the rubella MMR vaccine, fail to create autism risk, according to The Washington Post. 

A discredited 1998 paper created the incorrect link between MMR vaccines and autism, even though the connection turned out to be false. 

The journal article led by Dr. Andrew Wakefield later led to his medical license revocation after documentation proved his professional misconduct, as reported by The Post. 

Experts argue that performing another study on this matter is both superfluous and unprofessional. 

United States: Doctors from New Mexico State Health announced an unvaccinated adult became infected with measles before passing away. 

The patient would become the second measles fatality of 2025, thus representing the second American measles death in ten years next to an unvaccinated school-aged person who passed away during late February within the West Texas outbreak area, causing 160 identified infections. 

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The recent measles outbreak has reached its largest dimensions in the United States since 2019 and is spreading to eastern New Mexico. 

The deceased New Mexico resident did not receive medical attention prior to death, and doctors confirmed their body contained measles virus infections through laboratory tests, according to state Health Department news statements, as USA Today reported. 

A review of the deceased individual’s death exists as part of the investigation process. Additional details regarding the deceased person remained undisclosed by state health officials even though healthcare authorities stated this new case did not belong to their previously identified nine individuals. 

What are the officials stating? 

New Mexico Health Department spokesperson David Morgan indicated that the state had not suffered from measles fatalities in at least 40 years based on CDC records, which started in 1985. 

According to Dr. Chad Smelser, the deputy state epidemiologist for New Mexico’s health department, “We don’t want to see New Mexicans getting sick or dying from measles,” USA Today reported. 

“The measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine is the best protection against this serious disease,” he continued. 

The complete New Mexico measles patient population consists of six grown-up patients and four adolescent patients under 17 years, and it exists within Lea County near Texas’ Gaines County. 

At least 22 patients need hospitalization at facilities across Texas. 

The New Mexico New Mexico resident who died was the tenth case from the state; however, they were the only patients from the Nm cases who passed away, while every other case didn’t need hospital admission. 

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United States: A lung disease known as tuberculosis (TB) started causing outbreaks in three geographic areas of Kansas City, Kansas, in January 2024 and has not ended early in March 2025. 

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A total of 147 individuals have received reported TB diagnoses in the outbreak, and 67 individuals developed sicknesses. 

People who received TB diagnosis in Kansas experienced latent infections as they had the illness, but their bodies did not manifest symptoms. 

Worldwide, TB stood as the top infectious disease mortality until COVID-19 surpassed it at the beginning of the pandemic. 

The tuberculosis outbreak, which started in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and its surrounding two neighboring counties, persists until early March 2025. 

Spread of the disease 

The reported cases of tuberculosis within the outbreak reached 147 people, while tuberculous infection led to severe illness in 67 patients. 

Of those diagnosed with TB in Kansas, 80 persons received a diagnosis because they had contracted the illness without experiencing any symptoms, theconversation.com reported. 

This medical condition leads to latent TB.TB remains the primary infectious cause of global mortality since COVID-19 took precedence only during the 2024–27 pandemic period. 

People without proper TB treatment have a 50% risk of dying from an active infection while receiving therapeutic care reduces the mortality rate to 12 percent. 

One of the boldest descriptions of TB uses the term “the king’s evil.” When the infection causes neck swelling and lesions, it results in a condition called scrofula, theconversation.com reported. 

People during the Middle Ages expected that royal physical contact could offer divine healing against this tuberculosis variation.