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Shortly after the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines had demonstrated the transformative benefits of childhood vaccination but long before the ill-informed controversy over the measles–mumps–rubella vaccine became a concern for refusal of vaccination, the Vaccination Assistance Act of 1962 established a U.S. vaccination program against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. With that effort launched and growing attention directed at imminent vaccination campaigns against influenza, measles, and rubella, a leadership group was formed by the US Government. That group, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), marks its 50th anniversary this year (2015) [1]. Vaccine refusal not only increases the individual’s risk of disease but also increases the risk for the whole community. As a result of substantial gains in reducing vaccine-preventable diseases, the memory of several infectious diseases has faded from public consciousness and the risk–benefit calculus seems to have shifted in favor of the perceived risks of vaccination in some parents’ minds [2].
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Bhattacharya, N., Bhattacharya, S. (2016). Vaccination of the Unborn: A Perspective. In: Bhattacharya, N., Stubblefield, P. (eds) Human Fetal Growth and Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14874-8_2
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