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On October 8, the Florida Department of Health will hold a meeting in Orlando to discuss whether to eliminate a mandate that children be vaccinated before attending school or daycare. A new study shows that eliminating the vaccine mandates could result in a massive, nationwide measles epidemic. WGCU’s Cary Barbor spoke to the study’s author.
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