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Tom Harkin: “Do you really want to ask parents to put their children at risk for those illnesses for which we could lose herd…”

On the recordAugust 4, 2009
Do you really want to ask parents to put their children at risk for those illnesses for which we could lose herd immunity?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin questions the ethics of risking children's health for research on vaccines.

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