According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),by the end of September 2014,roughly 8,000 cases of whooping cough had been reported in California for that year; more than 250 patients (mostly infants and young children)were hospitalized with 58 of them requiring intensive care.Several other childhood diseases that were once common but then eradicated through high vaccination rates have returned since the antivaccination movement grew in the 1990s.The epidemiological data collected by the CDC indicates this resurgence of childhood diseases is most likely the result of

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The CDC's epidemiological data suggests that the resurgence of childhood diseases is due to reduced herd or community immunity, as fewer people are being vaccinated and thus fewer people are immune to the diseases. This makes it easier for the diseases to spread and increases the risk for unvaccinated individuals to contract the diseases.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC),by the End