By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - The author of a California bill to require school children to be vaccinated for such diseases as polio and measles regardless of their parents' personal beliefs said he would revive the measure, which stalled in the legislature last week. The bill, introduced in the wake of a measles outbreak that began at Disneyland and sickened 147 people last year, was pulled before it could come to a vote in the Senate education committee last week amid intense opposition from religious groups and parents who fear side-effects from vaccines. "These diseases not only paralyzed our country with fear, there are many people living amongst us who still bear the ravages of these diseases," said state Senator Richard Pan, a Democrat from Sacramento. "Why would we not demand that children be vaccinated before they enter school?" Pan, a pediatrician, was flanked by two elderly polio survivors in wheelchairs as he announced that he would bring the bill up for consideration a second time in the Senate education committee on Wednesday.
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