The state of the antivaccine movement in the United States: A focused examination of nonmedical exemptions in states and counties

PLoS Med. 2018 Jun 12;15(6):e1002578. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002578. eCollection 2018 Jun.

Jacqueline K Olive¹, Peter J Hotez^{1

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5}, Ashish Damania^{1

2}, Melissa S Nolan¹

¹ Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
² Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
³ Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America.
⁴ James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
⁵ Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Policy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America.

Abstract

In a Policy Forum, Peter Hotez and colleagues discuss vaccination exemptions in US states and possible consequences for infectious disease outbreaks.

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