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Why your child still needs vaccines, even if you may not know someone with the disease

  • Written by Edward Bell, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Drake University
imageSleeping Beauty's castle at Disneyland, where a measles outbreak in 2015 led to children being sickened in several states. Jae C. Hong/AP

At the turn of the 21st century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an article about the 10 greatest public health achievements over the past 100 years, from 1900-1999. One of them was...

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