KENTUCKY (FOX 56) — Preventive vaccinations are becoming less common in children, according to federal health officials.

"I don't think for most of us in health care, it's been surprising we've been seeing these trends happening; it's heartbreaking because these are things you can prevent," said Dr. Ryan Stanton, FOX 56 Chief Medical Contributor.

With numbers as high as they have been in decades in viral infections such as measles, folks could feel the effects of fewer preventive measures in the long run.

"The assumption is that everything's just a 'bad cold,' where these are completely different disease processes that put people's lives at significant risk, with either an acute risk of morbidity and mortality or lifetime damage like we used to see with polio," said Stanton.

He said so

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