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Chelsea Lydell holds her son, Joseph, 4, as she joins hundreds of others waiting to get into a legislative committee to oppose a proposal to give state public health officials instead of local doctors the power to decide which children can skip their shots before attending school, at the Capitol, in Sacramento, Calif. The bill, by state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, a pediatrician, said his legislation would give state health officials the tools they need to prevent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles

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California's strict vaccination laws may only have a small effect

In the wake of measles outbreaks, California enacted stricter laws governing vaccine exemptions – but loopholes mean many children still go without vaccinations

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Fluid samples on glass

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Experimental tuberculosis vaccine could save millions of lives

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Baby receiving vaccines

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Vaccines have helped us eradicate another strain of wild polio virus

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You probably score worse than monkeys on questions about the world

Humans

You probably score worse than monkeys on questions about the world

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Child with Measles rash on their back

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Should the UK make childhood vaccinations mandatory?

Analysis

A lady gets a vaccine

HPV vaccinations seem to be creating herd immunity for US men

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Live, weakened virus is used in some forms of the polio vaccine

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Wild polio has been eradicated in Nigeria but infections will continue

Analysis

Vaccination rates have been declining in the UK

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The UK has lost its World Health Organization ‘measles-free’ status

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Chlamydia vaccine shown to be safe in first ever human trial

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Chlamydia vaccine shown to be safe in first ever human trial

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Cervical cancer rates are in decline thanks to the HPV vaccine

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Just one dose of the HPV vaccine may be enough to lower cancer rates

A single dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine seems to be almost as good as two or three injections for preventing cervical precancerous lesions

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Ebola case confirmed in major city in Democratic Republic of Congo

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HPV vaccine to be offered to UK boys as well as girls from September

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Technology

YouTube anti-vax videos are on the decline but are yet to be wiped out

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People in Science

Louis Pasteur

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