“I grew up in an anti-vaxx household,” Lindenberger said in a YouTube video about the hearing. An Ohio teenager who made headlines last month for defying his mother’s anti-vaccine beliefs will testify about his experience before a congressional committee on Tuesday. The committee hearing Tuesday follows measles outbreaks in New York and Washington state. The number of anti-vaxxers has grown in recent years, largely because of the spread of misinformation about vaccines, including the myth that such injections cause autism. Lindenberger will be joined Tuesday by several other committee witnesses, including Washington Secretary of Health John Wiesman and Immune Deficiency Foundation President and CEO John Boyle.

Source: Huffington Post March 03, 2019 14:15 UTC