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Beyond the Vaccination Rift

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San Diego State University

Read more in Elisa Sobo "Beyond the Vaccination Rift," Sapiens, February 25, 2016

Parents who do not vaccinate their children have faced a firestorm of vitriol in recent years. Media coverage of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and whooping cough has too often ended in a blame game, deepening divides between communities of parents who vaccinate routinely and those who do not.