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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Anti-vaxxers are among the WHO’s top 10 global health threats, and Ebola fake news is killing people." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 18 Jan. 2019. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
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Owen, L. (2019, Jan. 18). Anti-vaxxers are among the WHO’s top 10 global health threats, and Ebola fake news is killing people. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/01/anti-vaxxers-are-among-the-whos-top-10-global-health-threats-and-ebola-fake-news-is-killing-people/
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Owen, Laura Hazard. "Anti-vaxxers are among the WHO’s top 10 global health threats, and Ebola fake news is killing people." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 18, 2019. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/01/anti-vaxxers-are-among-the-whos-top-10-global-health-threats-and-ebola-fake-news-is-killing-people/.
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