Should doctors accept unvaccinated kids in their clinics?


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Dr Ball checks a nine-month-old patient. While his practice used to accept non-vaccinated children, after the 2014 Disneyland California measles outbreak that involved a number of his patients, they decided to stop seeing children whose parents had no intention of allowing them to be immunised. — TNS

Paediatrician Dr Eric Ball still feels guilty about the Disneyland California measles outbreak of 2014.

At the time, his Orange County, California, office allowed children whose parents refused to vaccinate them to still remain as patients.

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