Ever since a now-disgraced doctor named Andrew Wakefield had a now-debunked study published in the British medical journal Lancet, other researchers have observed vaccination rates decrease.
And no matter how many times the Centers for Disease Control re-assert that there is no link between vaccines and autism, that study's influence has not seemed to diminish.
Unfortunately, this allowed diseases that once seemed all but eradicated to make a comeback in upstate New York, Texas, and throughout the Pacific Northwest.
But now that the government of Washington state could potentially address the issue, the vaccination debate has begun anew.