vaccination

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Earlier this month, the CDC dropped the federal government’s universal recommendations for childhood vaccination against six diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal

He knew what he was saying when he wrote appreciatively to Edward Jenner, the English physician who discovered vaccination, that “medicine has never before produced any single improvement of such utility.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The problem is attributed to a combination of factors, including gaps in sterilisation and vaccination programmes, rubbish piling up, abandonment of animals, shrinking forest habitats and uneven enforcement of laws.

From BBC

But outbreaks happen when vaccination rates fall below the levels needed to maintain herd immunity, which is about 95%.

From The Wall Street Journal

While the CDC has not officially changed MMR vaccine recommendations, the agency’s conflicting actions and confusing statements have only further depressed vaccination rates, experts said.

From Los Angeles Times