# Kennedy Compares Measles Deaths and Food-Related Disease

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2093707246387540010
- Source account: [@EricLDaugh](https://x.com/EricLDaugh)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:59
- Published: 2026-08-30
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D6iuAVaLRwPM/en/kennedy-compares-measles-deaths-and-food-related-disease

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D6iuAVaLRwPM/en/kennedy-compares-measles-deaths-and-food-related-disease) I will say this. In 10 years, there have been three measles deaths in America.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D6iuAVaLRwPM/en/kennedy-compares-measles-deaths-and-food-related-disease?t=7) There are now about 1.2 million deaths every year from food-induced illness.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D6iuAVaLRwPM/en/kennedy-compares-measles-deaths-and-food-related-disease?t=17) The, the media and certain demo- you know, uh, demagogue politicians are constantly trying to scare us about infectious disease, and we take the attention away from the chronic disease that is being caused by powerful entities, by big food companies, by big pharmaceutical companies. And what I'm trying to do as HHS

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D6iuAVaLRwPM/en/kennedy-compares-measles-deaths-and-food-related-disease?t=42) secretary, one, deal with the infectious disease outbreaks, which we're doing, but also redirect attention and resources to the thing that's really killing Americans, which are, are, uh, food-borne diseases.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/D6iuAVaLRwPM/en/kennedy-compares-measles-deaths-and-food-related-disease?t=56) Secretary Kennedy, um, I do wanna follow up on that-