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Part Two: Andrew Wakefield: The Worst Doctor Alive

Behind the Bastards

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I'm Not the Worst Person Today.

The current ongoing measles outbreak of 2019 centered around Portland, Oregon is the largest such outbreak in 20 years. Clark County, Washington, where the outbreak began had a measles vaccination rate of just 78%, not high enough for herd immunity to protect the immunocompromised. In December, 2014, a trip to Disneyland led to 147 confirmed cases of measles. 110 of those people lived in California and half of that group had not taken the MMR vaccine. Over the last five years, the number of children who go unvaccinated each year or in Texas each year has doubled to more than 57,000. The real true cause of these outbreaks of diseases that by all right should be long dead by

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