India, Jan. 7 -- The US federal government dropping a set of vaccines from its list of recommendations for universal vaccination will very likely push up risks of morbidity among children in that country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bypassing the usual process of external expert review for the decision was expected, given US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's anti-vaccine stance and the Trump administration's disregard for science, processes, and institutions (although, ironically, the US insists on proof that people visiting the country have been administered all these vaccines). Beyond American borders, the move is likely to fuel vaccine denialism, even in countries where health programmes are critically dependent...