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<p>Una epidemia de tosferina en California que ha cobrado las vidas de 10 niños, ha resultado en un cambio de legislación que ahora exige a todos los estudiantes de séptimo a doceavo grado que demuestren haber sido vacunados contra la mortal enfermedad.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sheer desperation forced Jose Hidalgo to join a class-action lawsuit filed last week in Alameda County Superior Court, challenging Cali-fornia’s approval of the cancer-causing strawberry fumigant, methyl iodide.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “I like my job, but I am afraid of what it is doing to my health,” the 35-year-old Mexican immigrant said in Spanish in a telephone interview translated by his Salinas-based attorney, Michael Marsh.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The whooping cough outbreak has already claimed the life of 10 children and has urged legislators to pass a law requiring all students entering 7th&nbsp;to 12th&nbsp;grade have a booster shot against the potentially killer disease.</p>