Katty Kay: Countries in Africa 'have higher vaccination rates than here in the United States'

Sunday show talking heads continued to debate vaccinations of children -- specifically, how there should be no debate -- as they analyzed political missteps from the past week.



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Measles Proves Delicate Issue to G.O.P. Field

WASHINGTON — The politics of medicine, morality and free will have collided in an emotional debate over vaccines and the government’s place in requiring them, posing a challenge for Republicans w



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Father of Boy With Leukemia Asks California School Officials to Bar Unvaccinated Students

In the latest salvo in the vaccination wars that have shaken California since a measles outbreak originated at Disneyland last month, the father of a 6-year-old boy with leukemia has asked the superintendent of his Marin County school district to keep unvaccinated children out of school.



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States with lower HPV vaccination rates have higher cervical cancer rates

A new study presented at a conference for the American Association for Cancer Research found that states with the lowest rates of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination have the highest rates of cervical cancer and deaths from the disease. This is not surprising.



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