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Dr. Mario Zambrano, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician with Homestead Hospital, highlights vaccines are important. “Unfortunately, there’s more advertisement on cholesterol than there is on vaccines. A lot of people don’t remember about people dying of tetanus or pertussis, but they do remember a relative having high cholesterol.”

He says even though they don’t have vaccination of smallpox anymore, there is something called warfare that can bring those agents back.

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