Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Rule Changes

Intervenor in the consolidated challenge

Florida's Legislature requires seven childhood vaccines for school entry. Four more — chickenpox, hepatitis B, Hib and pneumococcal disease — rest on a Department of Health rule. The department wants to drop those four, and on Nov. 9 an administrative law judge let two medical societies join the fight against it.

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