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The US CDC’s shift on vaccines and autism should alarm the world

Questions over the credibility of the US agency are coming at the worst possible moment.

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A protester calling for the removal of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The guidelines of the US Centers for Disease Control have been adopted by physicians and other health professionals around the world, including in Singapore.

A protester calling for the removal of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The guidelines of the US Centers for Disease Control have been adopted by physicians and other health professionals around the world, including in Singapore.

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Earlier in November,

Canada lost its measles elimination status

– which it achieved in 1998. It was a result of continuous measles transmission over the past year, with more than 5,000 cases and 2 deaths to date.

The percentage of Canada’s children who have received at least one dose of the MMR vaccine has fallen below 90 per cent in many provinces since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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