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The reasons parents in California are choosing not to immunize their kids today is partly due to what they find on the Internet, including a study that incorrectly linked vaccines to autism. Read More »
Vaccines
Wiping out diseases with vaccines makes their horrors a distant memory
Is a collective amnesia over the horrors of measles, polio and whooping cough responsible for fewer vaccinations? Read More »
Fewer vaccinations threaten San Diego’s collective immunity
Immunologists are raising the alarm about what they say is our collective amnesia over the damage these diseases have wrought in the past. Read More »
![[VIDEO] Alternative Vaccine Schedules](https://i0.wp.com/inewsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/vaccines-screen.png?resize=660%2C330&ssl=1 "[VIDEO] Alternative Vaccine Schedules")
[VIDEO] Alternative Vaccine Schedules
Much has been made of the “personal belief exemptions” parents use to allow their unvaccinated children to attend school. But a movement to delay or spread out vaccines for children is also lowering the county’s immunization rates for kindergarteners. Read More »
Shot Delays: Alternative Vaccine Schedules Mean Fewer San Diego Students Are Fully Immunized
Much has been made of the “personal belief exemptions” parents use to allow their unvaccinated children to attend school. But a movement to delay or spread out vaccines for children is also lowering the county’s immunization rates for kindergarteners. Read More »
San Diego County Kindergarten Vaccination Rates 2012-2013
Search for conditional and personal belief exemption rates for San Diego schools with at least 10 kindergartners enrolled for the 2012-2013 school year. Read More »
Why the Increase in Whooping Cough Outbreaks?
Dr. James Cherry, a globally recognized whooping cough expert, published a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine that backs up the findings of an investigation by inewsource and KPBS into the 2010 epidemic in California. Read More »
Study says Whooping Cough Vaccine Fades after 3 Years
The diminished protection was most evident in children ages eight through 12. Read More »
California Vaccine Exemption Rates by County
Search an interactive map of vaccine exemption rates throughout all counties in California. Read More »
Vaccination exemption rates by California county
In California, the number of personal belief exemptions for vaccinations filed for kindergartners increased in 41 of 58 counties from 2009 to 2010. Read More »