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Editorial: A dangerous dip in confidence in vaccines puts kids at risk from preventable disease

The percentage of people who believe parents should be required to vaccinate their children has been declining.

We live in an age of advanced scientific knowledge that produces vaccines that can ward off diseases such as measles, rubella, mumps and polio. We also live in an age when an increasing number of parents want the option of not vaccinating their children against these highly contagious and potentially fatal diseases.

Only 71% of people recently polled by the Kaiser Family Foundation believe that parents should be required

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