Dallas County will make moves to tackle vaccine hesitancy.
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From 2021 to 2022, the county saw a 1.26% drop off in immunization rates for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. There are even greater declines in vaccinations on a national level. According to the county, these trends are visible in most childhood immunizations within Dallas County. This may seem like a small figure, but Huang said it includes a lot of people across the county. Additionally, he said the decline is even higher in certain subpopulations in the region.
And Huang said he’s seeing an increase in these diseases. For example, pertussis is on the rise in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.reported in February that more than 200 Dallas-Fort Worth-area schools were at higher risk of a measles outbreak as inoculation rates dropped. “They can have a significant impact,” Huang said.
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