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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “In the 1990s, there were a lot of anaphylaxis cases suddenly…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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RFK on food allergy research

Published | Video Starts at 18:55

… are residual when it's combined with a protein, if it's a latex protein or a dairy protein or a peanut protein, that's when you get this heightened immune response. But In the 1990s, there were a lot of anaphylaxis cases suddenly exploding in Japan, and they traced it to gelatin and the live virus vaccines and the MMR vaccines. and some of the other vaccines they had over there, by 2000 they had removed it all and the anaphylaxis dropped dramatically. (18:55–19:11)

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Asserts that anaphylaxis cases in Japan in the 1990s were linked to gelatin in vaccines.

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