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Nearly 50 students at Harvard-Westlake School have been diagnosed with whooping cough. But unlike other recent outbreaks, all of the students had been vaccinated. The outbreak is an example what experts have been noticing since doctors switched to a new form of the pertussis vaccine in 1997.
In the middle of a measles outbreak in 1977, the Los Angeles school system required students to be inoculated or stay out of class. Other school systems followed the practice. Will it work again?
On March 31, 1977, as a measles epidemic swept through Los Angeles, the county health department issued an ultimatum to the parents of the county's 1.6 million schoolchildren: Get your kids vaccinated within a month or keep them home.
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