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AAP News Vol. 15 No. 12 December 1999, p. 18 © 1999 American Academy of Pediatrics
To counteract a rush of anti-vaccine rhetoric and state-level legislative attacks, the Academy has become a partner in the National Immunization Information Network (NIIN). "It is the ultimate irony that as we celebrate the prevention of epidemics of diseases that just a few generations ago sent fears through the community meningitis, polio, diphtheria, congenital rubella, measles we must also acknowledge the growing misconception that vaccines cause more harm than good," stated Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., co-chair of NIIN and president of the Morehouse School of Medicine.
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