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When speaking with vaccine-hesitant patients, pediatricians turn to these tips | CNN
2025-04-16 16:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Many pediatricians say they are seeing an increase in parents who are hesitant to vaccinate their children with the MMR vaccine and others. CNN In the early 2000s, when Dr. Alexandra Cvijanovich was completing her medical training in Utah, her team cared for a 13-year-old boy with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a degenerative neurological disease that can be fatal. Its a rare complication of the measles virus that appears years after the initial infection. The boy had been infected with measles when he was 7 months old, after contact with an unvaccinated child. Years later, he died of the complications, and Cvijanovich has never forgotten about him. He got the virus before he could be immunized. And thats just a tragic, horrible, preventable death, she said. Sherry Andrews prepares a MMR vaccine at the City of Lubbock Health Department in Lubbock, Texas, U.S. February 27, 2025. Andrews has been working for five years with the department. Annie Rice/Reuters Related artic...
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