Amanda Morris and Scott Simon, NPR; Defying Parents, A Teen Decides To Get Vaccinated
"Ethan Lindenberger is getting vaccinated for well, just about everything.
He's
18 years old, but had never received vaccines for diseases like
hepatitis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, or the chickenpox.
Lindenberger's mother, Jill Wheeler, is anti-vaccine. He said she has been influenced by online misinformation, such as a debunked study
that claimed certain vaccines were linked with autism, or a theory that
vaccines cause brain damage. Incorrect ideas like these have spread
like wildfire, so much so that the CDC has explicitly tried to combat
them, posting pages like "Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism.""
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