New Mexico joins multistate lawsuit over federal rollbacks to children’s vaccines

By: Danielle Prokop

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: February 25, 2026

Words: 493

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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The New Mexico Department of Justice announced on Wednesday it had joined multistate litigation challenging federal health officials’ reduction of the number of vaccines in national recommendations for children.

The complaint, filed in U.S. federal district court in San Francisco, seeks to overturn the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Jan. 5 memo stripping universal recommendations for doctors to issue vaccines on six childhood diseases: rotavirus, meningococcal disease, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, …

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