“Parents don’t know the impact of measles, or of polio, so they start to pick and choose vaccinations. Parents are choosing not to do polio. They say, ‘It’s been 30 years with no polio, so do I need to do this?’”
DR. CARLA DOMINGUES, an epidemiologist and former coordinator of Brazil’s national immunization program, in reference to the millions of children around the world, most of them in the poorest countries, who have missed some or all of their childhood vaccinations over the past two years.
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