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Forever Changed by Diseases that Vaccines Can Prevent, Families Share Their Stories
- Prompted by vaccine success breeding complacency and amplified by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s public skepticism, hesitancy has fueled disease resurgence, with isolated polio outbreaks in low-coverage communities.
- Research confirms all U.S. states require childhood vaccines, which are highly effective in preventing disease spread, despite past misinformation like the retracted MMR-autism study.
- Families advocate for vaccination, with Van Tornhout warning about preventable loss and Janith expressing anger at unvaccinated parents.
- To prevent disease re-emergence, advocates urge contacting officials, insurers, and pediatricians to support vaccination and combat misinformation.
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'It's insane': Family of Texas 4-year-old hit with $1.4K bill for measles shot
In the early days of the West Texas measles outbreak, Thang Nguyen eyed the rising number of cases and worried. His 4-year-old son was at risk because he had received only the first of the vaccine’s two doses.So, in mid-March, he took his family to a primary care clinic at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.By the end of the visit, his son, Anh Hoang, had received one shot protecting against four illnesses — measles, mumps, rube…
As Vaccine Hesitancy Grows, Families Recall the Deadly Toll of Preventable Diseases
In the time before widespread vaccination, death often came early. Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of children and leaving others with lifelong health problems. These illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday. Over the next century, vaccines virtually wiped out long-feared scourges like polio and measles and drastically reduced the toll of…
Before widespread vaccination, devastating infectious diseases swept through the United States, killing millions of children and leaving many others with lifelong health problems.
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