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Florida officials announced the state will work to end all vaccine mandates.

Florida law currently requires immunizations for several communicable diseases, including polio and measles.

The state has recently seen a significant increase in whooping cough cases and a measles outbreak.

Florida is moving to end all vaccine mandates in the state.

“Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” said Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida's surgeon general, at a Sept. 3 press conference in Valrico, Hillsborough County.

“Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body? I don’t have that right. Your body is a gift from God,” Ladapo said.

Vaccine requirements are in state law. Ladapo, the state's top public health official, said lawmakers will “hav

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