Jane Roberts is the deputy editor of Undark.
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Unvaccinated teenagers fight for right to immunization
More and more children whose parents refuse to vaccinate are discovering as teenagers that their bodies are at the center of a roiling tug-of-war between science and pseudoscience.
Unvaccinated teenagers fight for right to immunization
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11 February 2019 | 12 min read
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