Completing the DTaP primary series was 96.2% effective against pertussis in Alaska children aged 6 months to 6 years during a record 2024 outbreak.
|Articles|April 8, 2019
Impact of California's vaccine exemption bill (VIDEO)
Author(s)Bobby Lazzara, MD
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For Contemporary Pediatrics, Dr Bobby Lazzara discusses a study in Pediatrics that looked at what occurred in the wake of California's Senate Bill 277, which removed personal belief exemptions for vaccines.
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