A letter to parents from Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo contradicts guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which states that “unvaccinated children, including those who have a medical or other exemption to vaccination, must be excluded from school through 21 days after their most recent exposure.”
Dr. George Rust warns of a measles outbreak in Florida due to vaccine hesitancy, as cases surface in Broward County among children. Conflicting guidance on school attendance for unvaccinated individuals raises public health alarms.
Family physician and public health specialist Dr. George Rust has warned some of his colleagues about a potential measles outbreak in Florida “for at least the past year,” he said, because of the rise in vaccine hesitancy in pockets of the community.
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(CNN) — Family physician and public health specialist Dr. George Rust has warned some of his colleagues about a potential measles outbreak in Florida “for at least the past year,”