NEWSTALK 860 » epidemics http://ksfa860.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:10:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Study: More Kids Skipping Required Vaccines http://ksfa860.com/officials-worried-half-of-states-see-rise-in-kids-skipping-required-vaccinations/ http://ksfa860.com/officials-worried-half-of-states-see-rise-in-kids-skipping-required-vaccinations/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:02:55 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=30022 In what can only be described as an alarming trend, growing numbers of parents in more than half of the states are choosing to not have their children vaccinated.

Even though the vaccinations are required for school attendance, states allow parents who object to them to opt out.  This has health officials worried about possible new outbreaks of diseases that were all but stamped out.

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