2026年7月2日 / 美国东部时间晚上7:20 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：凯特琳·伊莱克（Caitlin Yilek）
一名前美国疾控中心（CDC）高级官员表示，去年当疾控中心工作人员正全力遏制2000年以来最严重的麻疹疫情时，美国卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪及其盟友却在援引有关麻疹及其疫苗的过时数据。
在周三接受《玛格丽特·布伦南直面全国》节目采访时，去年夏天因抗议辞职的四名疾控中心高级官员之一、前疾控中心首席医疗官黛布拉·尤里博士（Dr. Debra Houry）表示，肯尼迪及其盟友所传播的信息“并非基于科学和现实，而是为了推行早已确定的议程”。
去年全美报告了超过2000例麻疹病例，其中得克萨斯州西部的一场疫情导致两名儿童死亡。在此期间，肯尼迪的助手曾向尤里索要多年前的麻疹死亡病例数据。根据尤里提交给参议院卫生委员会的一批新公开的邮件显示，尤里在邮件中回复称“当前的麻疹应对工作必须优先”。
“在此期间，我们还不断收到请求，要求提供15年来所有麻疹病例的相关数据，以及这些死者是否还患有其他疾病，”她在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时说道，“与此同时，部长此前的团队发布了一份声明，称部分麻疹死亡病例并非由麻疹本身导致。在我看来，他们似乎是在翻阅疾控中心的数据，以此来回应其他组织的质疑，或是为了宣扬他们的观点。”
几乎在同一时期，尤里还对肯尼迪——这位长期的疫苗怀疑论者——有关麻疹、腮腺炎和风疹疫苗的言论表示担忧。肯尼迪有时会对该疫苗持肯定态度，但也会就疫苗成分发表不准确的言论，并推广其他治疗方法。在2025年春季的邮件中，尤里曾询问肯尼迪的助手，卫生官员是否可以“协助完善他的发言要点”。
“他会说疫苗中含有胎儿组织，我曾发邮件纠正这一说法，并询问我们该如何帮助他，”尤里在《直面全国》节目中谈及自己试图向肯尼迪提供“恰当的发言要点”时说道。事实上，疫苗中并不含有胎儿组织碎片。
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尤里表示，她之所以感到担忧，是因为错误信息的传播“会影响人们的生命”，可能会让人们在疫情期间拒绝接种麻疹疫苗。根据疾控中心的数据，去年感染麻疹的人群中约有93%未接种疫苗或疫苗接种情况不明。
“我们眼睁睁看着儿童因麻疹住院、死亡，”她说，“在麻疹疫情期间，我们需要人们行动起来，未接种疫苗的人应尽快接种。然而，他却在谈论一些疗法，比如类固醇、抗生素，甚至维生素A。”
在电视访谈和福克斯新闻的专栏文章中，肯尼迪宣称维生素A是治疗麻疹的有效方法，并援引疾控中心的一份声明推荐该补充剂。他还声称：“研究表明，维生素A可以大幅降低麻疹的死亡率。”
“我们在医院里已经接诊了维生素A中毒的病例，人们因为听信了它对麻疹有益的宣传而过量服用，”她说道。
Former CDC official says RFK Jr.’s response to measles outbreak “not based on science or reality”
July 2, 2026 / 7:20 PM EDT / CBS News
By Caitlin Yilek
While staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were racing to stop the worst measles outbreak since 2000 last year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies sought backward-looking data on measles and its vaccine, a former top CDC official said.
In an interview with “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Wednesday, former CDC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry, one of four senior CDC officials who resigned in protest last summer, said Kennedy and his allies were pushing out information “not based on science or reality, but trying to answer an agenda that was already in place.”
More than 2,000 cases of measles were reported nationwide last year, including hundreds in a West Texas outbreak linked to the deaths of two children. During that time, Kennedy aides asked Houry for years-old data on people with measles who had died. Houry told them in an email that the “active measles response has to take priority,” according to a trove of newly released emails that she provided to the Senate health committee.
“During all of that, we also get requests for 15 years of data on every single measles case and were there any other diseases that those people had, that died from measles,” she told CBS News. “Same time, a former group of the secretary’s put out a statement saying that some of the measles deaths weren’t due to measles. So, to me, it seemed like they were looking through CDC data, these requests to answer some questions from other organizations, or potentially promote their beliefs.”
At around the same time, Houry also expressed worry about statements by Kennedy — a longtime vaccine skeptic — on the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. Kennedy spoke positively about the vaccine at times, but also made inaccurate claims about its ingredients and promoted other treatments. In emails in spring 2025, Houry asked Kennedy’s aides whether health officials could “help him with his talking points.”
“He would say things like there’s fetal parts in vaccines, and I had sent an email to correct that, and said, how can we help him?” Houry told “Face the Nation” about trying to provide Kennedy with “appropriate talking points.” There is no fetal debris in vaccines.
CBS News has reached out to the Department of Health and Human Services for comment.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/former-cdc-chief-medical-officer-debra-houry-resignation-rfk-jr-policies/
Houry said she was concerned because the spread of misinformation “impacts lives” and could convince people not to get the measles vaccine during an active outbreak. Some 93% of people who contracted measles last year were either unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination status, according to CDC data.
“We had children being hospitalized, we had children dying from measles,” she said. “We needed people to respond during a measles outbreak and get vaccinated if they weren’t. Instead, he talked about healers and treatments around, like, steroids and antibiotics, and even vitamin A.”
In TV appearances and an opinion piece on Fox News, Kennedy declared that vitamin A was an effective measles treatment and pointed to a CDC statement recommending the supplement. He also claimed, “Studies have found that vitamin A can dramatically reduce measles mortality.”
“We actually saw vitamin A toxicity cases in hospitals. People were taking too much vitamin A because there had been messaging that it was helpful for measles,” she said.