WHO chief says Trump vaccine push goes against ‘decades of evidence’

The US health secretary has spent years saying the MMR vaccine caused autism despite no medical evidence.Published On 12 Aug 202612 Aug 2026The World Health Organization (WHO) chief has accused United States President Donald Trump of ignoring “decades of evidence” with his push to overhaul US childhood vaccination policy.The warning from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday comes days after Trump signed an order calling for a rethink of school vaccine mandates and renewed calls for the split of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate doses.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Could the HPV vaccine eliminate cervical cancer deaths?list 2 of 3US records 2,318 measles cases, already surpassing 2025 totallist 3 of 3DRC’s Ebola outbreak began months before it was officially declared, says WHOend of listTrump’s Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has long promoted a disproven link between the MMR shot and autism.But Tedros said the science is “unequivocal” and that “vaccines including the MMR vaccine are safe and do not cause autism”.“Vaccination policy should be guided by rigorous, independent and transparent review of the best ...