CDC Issues New Child Vaccine Schedule: Which Shots Have Been Cut?

New CDC childhood vaccination guidelines reduce the number of primarily targeted diseases from 16 to what the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has described as the 11 "most serious infectious diseases."

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