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Some parents have concerns about common childhood vaccines, like the MMR and flu shots, and are reluctant to vaccinate their children

SAO PAULO. KAZINFORM - Polio vaccination rates in Brazil have been falling since 2016, the last time the country surpassed 90 percent vaccination coverage of the target audience. The goal of the National Immunization Program (PNI) is to vaccinate between 90 and 95 percent of children under 5 years old, Kazinform cites Agencia Brasil.

According to the Pan American Health Organization, most infections are asymptomatic, but 5 to 10 out of every 100 infected individuals may experience flu-like symptoms.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, headquartered in Atlanta, whose mission is centred on preventing and controlling disease and promoting environmental health and health education in the United States. Part of the Public Health Service, it was founded in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center to fight malaria and other infectious diseases. As its scope widened to polio, smallpox, and disease surveillance, the name was changed to the Center for Disease Control and later pluralized. Today the CDC subsumes health statist...

From an article in Rolling Stone about mercury and autism: The CDC “wants us to declare, well, that these things are pretty safe,” Dr. Marie McCormick, who chaired the [Institute of Medicine’s] Immunization Safety Review Committee, told her fellow researchers when they first met in January 2001.