A growing group of parents are home-schooling their children in order to skirt immunization requirements at public and private schools. The parents do not want to vaccinate because they believe that vaccines can reduce a child’s immunity to disease or cause autism, two theories which are considered baseless by the mainstream scientific community. Meanwhile, public health officials are concerned that the increasing number of children who are not vaccinated is leading to a rise in illnesses like measles, reports USA Today. To read more click here.

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