May the Vaccines Be With You!

Body Horrors
By Rebecca Kreston
Jan 16, 2013 6:44 AMNov 20, 2019 5:49 AM

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What is the best way to persuade parents to get their kids vaccinated against preventable diseases? Tug sentimentally at the heartstrings? Appeal to common sense and logic? Shame and blame?

Or how about going the pop culture route and using characters from one of the most popular movies in history as the CDC and the Department of Health, Education, & Welfare did in April 1978?

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