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Anti-vaccination mothers have outsized voice on social media – pro-vaccination parents could make a difference

  • Written by Brooke W. McKeever, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
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A high school student from Ohio made national headlines recently by getting inoculated despite his family’s anti-vaccination beliefs.

Ethan Lindenberger, 18, who never had been vaccinated, had begun to question his parents’ decision not to immunize...

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