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How Measles, Polio and Other Eliminated Diseases Could Roar Back If U.S. Vaccination Rates Fall


As U.S. childhood vaccination rates sway on a “knife’s edge,” new 25-year projections reveal how slight changes in national immunization could improve—or drastically reverse—the prevalence of measles, polio, rubella and diphtheria

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