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Countering antivaccination attitudes.
Three times as many cases of measles were reported in the United States in 2014 as in 2013. The reemergence of measles has been linked to a dangerous trend: parents refusing vaccinations for their children. Efforts have been made to counter people's antivaccination attitudes by providing scientific evidence refuting vaccination myths, but these interventions have proven ineffective. This study ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
سال: 1899
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1899.02450400040019