Paul A. Offit, MD
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Paul A. Offit, MD is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the author of Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure.

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Don't Risk Going Unvaccinated

Posted January 22, 2009 | 11:52:47 (EST)

This past year the United States witnessed a measles epidemic that was the largest in more than a decade. About 135 people, mostly children, were infected with measles; some of those children were hospitalized with severe dehydration and others with pneumonia caused by the virus.

Why did this happen? The...

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