Wired May 18, 2026 • 09:00

A Danish Couple’s Maverick African Research Finds Its Moment in RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policy - WIRED

By Arthur Allen, KFF Health News

A Danish Couple’s Maverick African Research Finds Its Moment in RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policy - WIRED

The work of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn has long been controversial. Until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became US health policy chief, most vaccine scientists tended to ignore it. Now they can’t.

In 1996, Guinea-Bissau seemed like an ideal research post for budding pediatrician Lone Graff Stensballe. Her supervisor, a fellow Dane named Peter Aaby, had spent nearly two decades collecting data … [+3812 chars]

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