Neither state is known for great health stats. Mississippi, in particular, is poor, and has childhood disease and mortality rates to prove it. Except in one area: neither state allows a personal belief exemption to childhood immuniizations, and both states have avoided any outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, etc., unlike their neighbors.
So, of course, anti-vaxxers are trying to change that.
Mississippi – yes, Mississippi – has the nation’s best child vaccination rate. Here’s why.
Public health trumps personal choice in Mississippi. But the program’s success is under threat.
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