The US health agency has updated its official website to reflect the vaccine skepticism of a senior Trump official, backpedaling on its own years of efforts to combat misinformation on the topic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Wednesday revised its site with language that muddies its previous scientifically grounded position that immunizations do not cause the developmental disability autism.
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