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Rubella vaccinations

With politicians such as Chris Christie now stupidly chiming in about children in the Feb. 3 article Christie: Parents deserve some choice about vaccines, why is no one discussing the real possibility of unborn fetuses suffering serious birth defects and intellectual impairment when exposed in-utero to rubella?

Rubella isn’t just a simple childhood disease Whether or not they want to face it, indeed the world is round.

Ingrid Sheyn, Palmetto Bay

This story was originally published February 11, 2015 at 6:17 PM with the headline "Rubella vaccinations."

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