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Vaccine preventable illness
A vaccine-preventable illness is an illness for which there is an effective vaccine. Most people who get the vaccine will not get the illness. Examples are: measles, rubella, hepatitis A & B, polio, etc
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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