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U.S. Axes Number of Recommended Childhood Vaccines in Blow to Public Health


The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing the recommended number of vaccines for children to those that protect against 11 diseases instead of the protections against 17 illnesses that it recommended previously

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