A rising number of California parents are choosing to send their children to kindergarten without routine vaccinations, putting hundreds of elementary schools in the state at risk for outbreaks of childhood diseases eradicated in the U.S. years ago. Exemptions from vaccines, which allow children to enroll in public and private schools without state-mandated inoculations, have more than doubled since 1997, according to a Times analysis.
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