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How Measles, Whooping Cough, and Worse Could Roar Back on RFK Jr.’s Watch

KFF Health News

” The kaleidoscopic change has been jarring for Walter Orenstein, who persuaded states to tighten school mandates to fight measles outbreaks as head of the CDC’s immunization division from 1988 to 2004. influenzae type B bacteria, a disease that has mostly disappeared because of a vaccine introduced in 1987.

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How measles, whooping cough, and worse could roar back on RFK Jr.’s watch

NC Health News

The kaleidoscopic change has been jarring for Walter Orenstein, who persuaded states to tighten school mandates to fight measles outbreaks as head of the CDCs immunization division from 1988 to 2004. influenzae type B bacteria, a disease that has mostly disappeared because of a vaccine introduced in 1987.