Dr. Barry Dworkin

Disinformation and mistrust leading to pockets of vaccine hesitancy

Health Headlines Commentary for December 18, 2015

Source:

Vaccine ‘hesitancy’ persists among Canadian parents of young children, Ottawa survey suggests

 

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