California moves to change law allowing parents to opt out on philosophical grounds as medical experts warn of link between such laws and disease rates
The US measles outbreak has health officials pleading with parents to just say yes and vaccinate their children against the highly infectious – and potentially deadly – disease that just 15 years ago was declared eradicated. Now, with more than 100 confirmed cases across 14 states, lawmakers back where the outbreak began want to make it more difficult for parents to say no.
On Wednesday, two California politicians proposed a bill that would ban parents from opting out of vaccines on philosophical grounds. Assessing the legislative public health solution as potentially replicable across the country, a leading researcher said that when the exemption box is more difficult to check, disease rates fall.
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