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Even small drops in vaccination rates for US children can lead to disease outbreaks

  • Written by David Higgins, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Even small drops in vaccination rates for US children can lead to disease outbreaksXerius Jackson, age 7, gets an MMR vaccine during the Texas measles outbreak in March 2025.Jan Sonnenmair via Getty Images

More than three-quarters of U.S. counties and jurisdictions are experiencing declines in childhood vaccination rates, a trend that began in 2019, according to a September 2025 NBC News–Stanford University investigation....

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