Louisiana health officials say two measles cases have been confirmed, and whooping cough infections are already surpassing last year’s totals—with infants most at risk.
On Wednesday Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy questioned President Trump's pick for National Institutes of Health (NIH) director on a controversial and disproven alternative medicine theory. Cassidy once more put to rest a decades old myth about the side effects of the Measeles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine in light of a recent passing due to an outbreak of Measeles.