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The counties where the anti-vaccine movement thrives in the US

  • Written by Peter J Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine
The counties where the anti-vaccine movement thrives in the USThanks to nonmedical exemptions, vaccination rates are falling in some states.Zodiacphoto/shutterstock.com

As a pediatrician-scientist who develops new vaccines for neglected diseases, I spent most of my career in the Boston-Washington, D.C. corridor.

While working in the Northeast, I had heard a few things about the anti-vaccine movement. As both...

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