Have You Ever Dreamed of Becoming a Professional Speaker ...

Four years ago, I attended my very first Launch Conference. It is designed to help speakers (and other communicators) start or maximize their business. In a moment I?ll explain how you can save $200 off the Early Bird rate, which expires on June 30th.

First a little background ?

Launch is the conference that helped me decide to ?turn pro? and become a professional speaker. Sure, I had thought about it before. In fact, I had dreamed about it for years. But this four-day training event gave me the information, tools, and confidence I needed to get started.

I literally would not be where I am today had I not attended that first event. It changed everything.

The Launch Conference was originally created by Ken Davis, a popular speaker and comedian. After his career took off, he was inundated with pleas for help. Aspiring speakers, comedians, and other performers wanted to know how to do what he had done.

In response, Ken distilled everything he had learned over the course of his career into a simple but powerful four-part framework. (More about that in a minute.) It has helped hundreds of speakers launch their careers and maximize their income.

After attending Launch, I was so enthusiastic about the content?and the results it delivered?I became Ken?s business partner. (In addition to Launch, we also co-produce the SCORRE? and Platform Conferences.) My goal was to help Ken take this training to a much wider audience.

If you have ever thought about pursuing a career in public speaking or if you are already a professional but know you are not earning what you should, this conference is for you. It provides three benefits:

1. You will learn our proprietary, four-part framework. We teach you how to:

   • Discover your assets. You will take inventory of your talents and gifts. You?ll consider your status and platform. You?ll even learn how to convert your weaknesses into strengths. You?ll discover your unique expertise and voice.

   • Design your products. This is all about packaging and selling your assets. We ask, ?What product are you really selling to your buyers?? It could be a live product like a speech, seminar, or conference. It might be a physical or digital product like a book, audio, or video series. It could even be a service, like coaching or consulting.

   • Develop your market. You?ll learn the basics of marketing, including how to use social media to gain visibility with your target audience. You?ll discover what meeting planners are looking for, how to develop effective promotional materials to reach them, and the pluses and minuses of booking agents and speakers bureaus.

   • Determine your value. We discuss why you should charge for your services and why you are cheating your customers if you don?t. We explain how to establish your pricing and how to negotiate the best fees possible. We also share a strategy that will enable you to raise your fees over time without jeopardizing the number of requests you are getting.

2. You will interact with top industry professionals. In addition to Ken and me, Danny de Armas, Ken?s former manager, will be joining us. He is a phenomenal instructor with more than thirty years of experience. New York Times bestselling author, Dan Miller, will also be teaching on ?How to Develop Multiple Streams of Income.?

   This is a boutique conference. We limit the registration to just 60 attendees. This means you get plenty of time to talk to our instructors (including me) and learn from them throughout the week.

   In addition, our Master level attendees will get personal, one-on-one coaching from Ken and me throughout the week. Note: we only have two of these spots left!

3. You will enjoy the camaraderie of fellow students. This is one of my favorite aspects of any conference, but it is especially true of the Launch Conference. The problem is that most of your family and friends don?t understand what you do?or want to do. They may try to encourage you, but?let?s be honest?they don?t really have much to contribute.

   But you don?t have to struggle alone. At the Launch Conference, you will meet fellow-travelers. These are people who are on the same journey, chasing the same dream and facing the same challenges. You will have an instant bond that may well last a lifetime.

The Launch Conference isn?t theory. It?s not speculation. It is a proven system that provides the inspiration, training, and resources you need to succeed. It has worked for hundreds of others. It will work for you.

Whether you are just considering a career in public speaking, thinking about adding it as one of the services you offer, or taking your current career to the next level, this conference is for you.

As a reader of my blog, you can take $200 off the Early Bird discount by entering the code HYATT when you register. This offer is good until June 30, 2013. And, as usual, I personally guarantee the results:

If you attend the conference and at any time before it?s over determine that we haven?t delivered as promised, I will promptly refund your money. No problem. No questions asked. You have my word on it.

Think of your registration fee as an investment. It will pay for itself almost immediately. You will leave pumped about the possibilities, with concrete ideas you can put to work immediately.

I hope to see you there.

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Helena Bonham Carter Joins Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella

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It's hard to imagine Helena Bonham Carter starring in anything but a fantasy or period piece, or a cross-over of the two.

Disney revealed today that our favorite female Death Eater will once again flick a wand, but this time using magic for good as the fairy godmother in the upcoming live-action "Cinderella." Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of the classic fairy tale will also star Lily James of "Downton Abbey" in the title role, an evil Cate Blanchette as the wicked stepmother, and Richard Madden of "Games of Thrones" as Prince Charming.

Bonham Carter seems a perfect fit for the role, having been cast as one bizarre, fantastical character after another -- from the Red Queen to Bellatrix Lestrange to Mrs. Lovett. Yet we wonder if she will ever tone things down and return to her simpler roots, ? la Marla Singer.

No release date for the "Cinderella" reboot has been announced yet, but filming is reported to begin this fall in London.

Gallery | Disney Sequels and Prequels You Didn't Know

• ?Cinderella II and III? (2002)

  Fifty-two years after Cinderella lost her glass slipper, Disney released the first of two sequels to the romance classic. In 2002?s "Cinderella II: Dreams Come True," Jaq the mouse is turned into Cinderella?s human pageboy and one of her evil stepsisters falls in love with a low-class man. In "Cinderella III: A Twist in Time," from 2008, Cinderella?s wicked stepmother gets ahold of the Fairy Godmother?s wand and goes back in time to when Cinderella tried on the slipper (uh oh).

• ?Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World? (1998)

  Disney has a poor track record of re-telling American history, so why not make a ?Pocahontas? sequel and continue to get her story wrong? The follow up to the 1995 movie tells a Disney-friendly version of Pocahontas?s life in England and how she meets and marries John Rolfe (a tobacco farmer in real life, but diplomat in the movie). The movie ends with John Smith confessing his love to Pocahontas (in real life, he betrayed his promise to her and her father), and Pocahontas sailing off happily with husband Rolfe (in real life, she died soon after). Disney always has to romanticize everything -- and confuse the heck out of kids.

• ?Return to Never Land? (2002)

  Although many ?Peter Pan? live-action reboots and sort-of sequels have been made by other studios, Disney decided to go back to Neverland themselves in 2002. This theatrically released follow-up takes place during World War II, as Wendy?s daughter Jane is kidnapped by Captain Hook. Surprisingly, this film actually opened in third place.

• ?Mulan II? (2005)

  Things ended just fine in 1998?s ?Mulan? when the titular character returned home and Li Shang stayed for dinner. But Disney had to keep going of course, and in the movie?s 2004 sequel Li Shang finally asks Mulan to marry him. The film follows the couple as they escort the Emperor's daughters to meet their new fiances. While described as a continuation of the first film?s ?epic adventure,? after fighting the Huns, everything else seems utterly boring.

• ?The Jungle Book 2? (2003)

  ?The Jungle Book 2? is one of the very few Disney sequels to be released theatrically before going to video, most likely because it features the voices of Haley Joel Osment and John Goodman. In this movie, Mowgli returns to the jungle -- but nothing really happens, as he ends up back in the Man Village at the end anyway (well, that was pointless).

• ?Bambi II? (2006)

  Sixty-four years after the 1942 classic, Disney returned to the sad motherless deer in the woods. The sequel (or, technically, midquel) takes place during the gap of time in the original, after Bambi?s death and before he grows up. While the film was a direct-to-video release in most countries, it was -- oddly enough -- theatrically released in Argentina.

• ?An Extremely Goofy Movie? (2000)

  We all remember 1995?s ?A Goofy Movie? where Max is forced to go on a chaotic road trip with his father. As if Goofy didn?t embarrass Max enough in the first movie, this time he goes way too far. After Max heads to college, Goofy loses his job and must return to school to finish up his degree. Obviously, he enrolls at his son?s school. No one wants their college fun spoiled by dad.

• ?Stitch! The Movie? and More ?Lilo & Stitch? Sequels

  ?Lilo & Stitch? became a giant franchise after the original 2002 film. The sequels first kicked off with 2003?s direct-to-video ?Stitch! The Movie,? followed by a spin-off TV series, then direct-to-video ?Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch? in 2005, and finally 2006?s ?Leroy & Stitch." Who knew the little blue alien would prove to be so popular?

• ?The Return of Jafar? and More ?Aladdin? Sequels

  That?s right -- Disney ventured back into Aladdin?s Arabian Nights adventures twice, including ?The Return of Jafar? in 1994 and ?Aladdin and the King of Thieves? in 1996. Although Robin Williams didn?t voice the Genie in the first sequel due a contract dispute with Disney, he returned as our favorite wish-granter in ?King of Thieves.?

• ?Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas? and More Sequels

  Belle and the Beast return twice in both "Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas" in 1997 and "Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World" in 1998, both of which went straight to video. In the Christmas movie, the Beast turns into a Scrooge by not wanting to celebrate the holiday. The second sequel tells a series of stories each with a different moral. Who better to learn life lessons from than a bunch of humans turned into objects for their bad deeds?

• ?The Little Mermaid II? and Prequel

  Poor Ariel finally escaped the terrors of the sea in the 1989 classic film, but Disney just had to toss her back in with the fish. In 2000?s ?The Little Mermaid II: Return to Sea,? Ariel and Eric?s daughter swims into some dark waters and gets tangled up with Morgana, Ursula?s sister. But that wasn?t enough so Disney dove back in with ?The Little Mermaid: Ariel?s Beginning? in 2008 to recount the origin story of the young mermaid.

• ?Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure? (2001)

  The 1955 classic about puppy love gets dug up again in Disney?s 2001 sequel, which follows Lady and Tramp?s only son pup Scamp. To no one's surprise, Scamp turns out to be more like his father. In the film, he runs away from his family to be a wild dog and join a gang of junkyard dogs. Sometimes you can?t take the mutt out of the pup.

• ?101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure? (2003)

  You probably remember Disney?s live-action remake and sequel of ?101 Dalmatians."?As if those both weren't enough they decided to make an animated sequel as well. "101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure" follows Patch, one of the pups, who gets left behind on his family?s moving day.

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Paul Feig to Direct Female Spy Comedy

Paul Feig will be continuing his recent trend of directing comedies led by a female cast with Susan Cooper. His 2011 female-led feature, Bridesmaids,?was a mega success, bringing in $288 million. That film will be followed by The Heat later this month. After bridal parties and buddy cops, Feig?s new focus will be on a female spy who is said to be reminiscent of James Bond.

While not much can be said of the plot, Feig will be taking a more realistic approach, unlike other spy comedies such as Austin Powers or Johnny English. Similar to The Heat, two characters will lead the story. The possibility of creating a franchise is also being discussed.

In addition to directing, Feig has provided the script and will be producing. He was supposedly inspired by one of his favorite movies, the 1967 spoof Casino Royale starring Peter Sellers. If the two films have anything in common, Susan Cooper will surely receive divided reviews.

Feig currently has a project in the works with Reese Witherspoon titled?Wish List, and another comedy focused on the relationship between a mother and daughter that was written by Katie Dippold of The Heat. However, he seems to be making more progress with Susan Cooper at the moment and it will likely be his next film.

Women are often ignored and disregarded when it comes to comedy and Feig has been defying that status quo. Movies like Bridesmaids and The Heat, with the assistance of brilliant and fearless female comedic actors like Melissa McCarthy, prove that actresses are capable of portraying more than the clumsy sidekick or the witty best friend. Perhaps Paul Feig will demonstrate this point even further in?Susan Cooper. Judging by his current track record, we see no reason why he won?t.

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The Lego Movie Trailer: The Fate of the World is in his Tiny Yellow Hands

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Keystone Seen Failing to Sop Up Canada Oil Glut

Even if U.S. President Barack Obama
approves the Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian crude oil probably
will remain the cheapest in the world, hampering expansion of
the country?s largest export industry.

Canadian oil prices are forecast to fall compared with
world benchmarks because production from oil sands, fields of
sand coated with heavy oil beneath about 90,000 square
kilometers (34,749 square miles) of boreal forest in northern
Alberta, is estimated to more than double to 3.8 million barrels
a day by 2022. Keystone, the 1,179-mile link from Alberta to
Nebraska first proposed in 2008 and delayed in part by
environmental activists, would only briefly relieve the glut.

?Keystone will help alleviate the lack of pipeline
infrastructure but only temporarily,? David Bouckhout, a senior
commodity strategist at TD Securities in Calgary, the securities
unit of Canada?s second-largest bank, said in a telephone
interview. ?Growth of supply on both sides of the border,
Bakken and Canadian supply, will outpace what Keystone?s
capacity will provide in likely two to three years.?

The prospect of prices staying below other types of crude
oil risks undermining investment in the Alberta oil sands, the
world?s third-largest reserves and the U.S.?s biggest source of
imports. Companies from Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) to Canadian Natural
Resources Ltd. (CNQ) lost a combined C$2.5 billion ($2.45 billion) in
revenue last year on lower prices, according to Houston-based
PPHB Securities LP. Oil-sands investment fell 10 percent last
year to $20.4 billion, Alberta?s Energy Resources Conservation
Board said.

Supply Glut

Canada refined about 1 million barrels a day of its crude
output last year, leaving 2.3 million to be exported. Domestic
demand will grow by 346,000 barrels a day by 2020 if Canadian
regulators approve pipelines to the country?s eastern provinces,
while production will grow by 1.6 million over the same period,
according to a June 5 forecast by the Canadian Association of
Petroleum Producers. That means at least 1.3 million barrels of
extra production will need to move out of the country by then.

The four existing routes from Alberta to the U.S. West and
Midwest have a combined capacity of 3.7 million barrels a day,
more than the 3.2 million barrels a day Canada produced last
year, of which 55 percent was from the oil sands. Some of the
lines carry extra supplies from North Dakota, which pumped
663,000 barrels a day in 2012, Energy Information Administration
data show.

Additional Supply

In addition, about 799,000 barrels a day of North Dakota
and Canadian output is due to come online in 2013 and 2014,
according to CAPP and the U.S. Energy Information
Administration, sopping up almost all of the 830,000-barrel-a-day capacity that Keystone would add if it starts up as proposed
in 2015.

?Once we get Keystone in place, that will not be the
answer,? Greg Stringham, CAPP?s vice president of oil sands and
markets, said in a June 5 interview from Calgary. ?It may hold
us off for a couple of years, but it?s clearly not going to be
the long-term answer.?

Western Canadian Select, or WCS, swaps for 2019 were priced
at $61.74 a barrel, or $19.94 below similarly-dated West Texas
Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark grade, at 2:30 p.m. today,
according to the Bloomberg Fair Value Index. Mars Blend, a
medium-density, high-sulfur crude produced in the U.S. Gulf of
Mexico, was at $83.55 a barrel. Dubai crude, the benchmark Asian
grade, was valued at $86.42.

Output Growth

Total Canadian production is forecast to grow more than 50
percent to 4.9 million barrels a day by 2020, while U.S. output
expands 37 percent to 11.1 million barrels, the International
Energy Agency said in its World Energy Outlook in November.
Canadian output jumped 38 percent over the past 10 years,
according to the National Energy Board, the federal energy
regulator.

Canada?s export capacity will have to double to more than 8
million barrels a day by 2030 should production expand at the
rate predicted by CAPP. Even if all the current pipeline
projects are approved, additional capacity of more than 1
million barrels a day will be needed from 2025.

?That?s really just 13 years from now, and in pipeline
years that?s not a long time,? Stringham said.

The $5.3 billion project, connecting Hardisty, Alberta,
with Steele City, Nebraska, was rejected by Obama in early 2012
because it was to be laid across the environmentally protected
Sand Hills Grassland and Ogallala Aquifer areas. The president
expects to make a decision on the re-routed line, now to run
about 100 miles to the east of the Sand Hills, sometime this
year, North Dakota Senator John Hoeven, a Republican, said after
meeting the president in March.

Environmental Concerns

Environmental groups say the line shouldn?t be built
because of the risk of spills and because it would increase
pollution by encouraging development of the oil sands, from
which is extracted bitumen, a thick, tar-like form of oil that
flows like cold molasses at room temperature.

Emissions from the production and use of the sands are 8
percent to 37 percent higher than from oil, according to the
Calgary-based Pembina Institute, a non-profit environmental
research and advocacy group.

TransCanada Corp. (TRP), the builder of the line, aims to
complete a $2.3 billion southern pipeline between Cushing,
Oklahoma, and Nederland, Texas later this year that would take
oil delivered on Keystone XL to refineries on the Gulf Coast.

Lacking Capacity

?We are out of pipeline capacity right now,? Peter
Howard, chief executive officer of the Canadian Energy Research
Institute, a non-profit energy economics and environment
research group in Calgary, said yesterday by telephone. If
Keystone is delayed further, ?the political fallout from that
is going to sour the relationship between Canada and the U.S.
for sure.?

Canada is increasingly reliant on revenue from oil. Energy
products were the country?s fastest-growing export over the past
20 years, rising to 23.2 percent of all shipments, from 9
percent in 1993, data from Statistics Canada show.

WCS dipped to a record discount of $42.50 a barrel to WTI
in December as pipelines reached capacity. The grade recovered
this month as maintenance at oil-sands upgraders reduced
production and as BP Plc (BP/) prepared to start the largest crude
unit at the Whiting, Indiana, refinery, after converting it to
process mostly heavy Canadian oil. August WCS was $17.25 below
WTI at 3:59 p.m. New York time today. It has traded at an
average $22.29 a barrel discount from 2012, compared with $13.69
in the previous three years, according to data compiled by
Bloomberg.

Hurting Revenue

Alberta?s government said it will run a deficit in the
coming fiscal year as it collects C$6 billion less revenue than
it expected, forcing cuts in services and the use of reserves
from a provincial wealth fund. Steve Laut, president of Calgary-based Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., cited the price decline
as a reason for a drop in first-quarter cash flow on a May 3
conference call.

?The resulting uptick in heavy and upgraded light oil
supply is overwhelming local refining demand and pipeline
takeaway capacity,? analysts at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. led by
Arjun Murti in New York said in a note to clients June 2. WCS
will average $27 less than WTI next year and $41 a barrel
cheaper in 2015 if Keystone is delayed or the bottleneck
worsens, the analysts said.

A decision blocking Keystone would reduce spending on oil-sands projects by about $9.4 billion between 2014 and 2017, Dan MacDonald, an RBC Capital Markets analyst, wrote in a note to
clients May 27.

Overwhelm Demand

North America?s growing supply of shale and oil-sands crude
will overwhelm demand unless it?s exported, according to Jackie
Forrest, the senior director of global oil research in Calgary
at IHS CERA, an energy markets research firm based in Englewood,
Colorado. The U.S. will be able to consume as much as 5 million
barrels of its neighbor?s crude, she said.

?Sometime between 2020 and 2030, the Canadian oil sands
will need other markets than the U.S.,? Forrest said. ?Even
then the vast majority of supply can fit into the U.S. market,
because the refineries on the Gulf Coast and potentially
California are so well fitted to process that heavy crude.?

Additional routes are under consideration. TransCanada is
studying the conversion of a line from gas to oil that would
transport as much as 1 million barrels a day of light oil to
refineries in eastern Canada. Enbridge Inc. (ENB)?s Northern Gateway
line would bring as much as 525,000 barrels a day of heavy oil
to Kitimat, British Columbia, for overseas shipment as soon as
2017. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP) plans to almost triple
the size of its Trans Mountain pipeline from near Edmonton,
Alberta, to Vancouver to 890,000 barrels a day, by 2017.

?Even with Keystone XL there has to be some other method
of getting oil out of Canada? if Keystone is rejected, Michael
Formuziewich, who helps manage C$2.2 billion at Leon Frazer and
Associates Inc. in Toronto, said in a June 4 phone interview.

To contact the reporter on this story:
Edward Welsch in Calgary at
ewelsch1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Dan Stets at
dstets@bloomberg.net

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CAPP?s Vice President of Oil Sands and Markets Greg Stringham

F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers vice president of oil sands and markets Greg Stringham said ?It may hold us off for a couple of years, but it?s clearly not going to be the long-term answer.??

Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers vice president of oil sands and markets Greg Stringham said ?It may hold us off for a couple of years, but it?s clearly not going to be the long-term answer.??Photographer: F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg

May 31 (Bloomberg) ? Russ Girling, chief executive officer of TransCanada Corp., talks about the outlook for the company?s proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Girling spoke in an interview with Peter Cook for Bloomberg Television?s ?Capitol Gains,? which airs June 2. (Source: Bloomberg)

Article source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-18/keystone-seen-failing-to-sop-up-canada-oil-glut.html

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HPV vaccine cut infection by half in teen girls

ATLANTA (AP) ? A vaccine against a cervical cancer virus cut infections in teen girls by half in the first study to measure the shot's impact since it came on the market. The results impressed health experts and a top government top health official called them striking.

The research released Wednesday echoes studies done before the HPV vaccine became available in 2006. But the new study is the first evidence of just how well it works now that it is in general use.

Only about half of teen girls in the U.S. have gotten at least one dose of the expensive vaccine, and just a third of teen girls have had all three shots, according to the latest government figures.

"These are striking results and I think they should be a wake-up call that we need to increase vaccination rates," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Cervical cancer is caused by certain types of the common sexually transmitted virus called HPV, for human papillomavirus. The vaccine, which costs about $130 per dose, protects against a few of those strains, including two blamed for 70 percent of cervical cancers. The shots work best if given before someone is sexually active so the emphasis has been on giving the shots to 11- and 12-year olds.

The CDC study compared infection rates in girls ages 14 to 19 before and after the vaccine became available. The proportion infected with the targeted HPV strains dropped 56 percent, from about 12 percent before the vaccine was sold to 5 percent. That result was for all teens after it was on the market, whether or not they were vaccinated.

Among girls who had gotten the vaccine, the drop in HPV infections was higher ? 88 percent.

There are two vaccines against HPV, but the study mainly reflects the impact of Gardasil, the Merck & Co. vaccine that came on the market in 2006. A second vaccine approved in 2009 ? GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix ? probably had relatively little bearing on the results, said the CDC's Dr. Lauri Markowitz, the study's lead author.

Both vaccines are approved for use in males and females ? in ages 9 to 26 for females, and 9 to 21 in males. The vaccine was only recommended for boys in late 2011, and the CDC has not yet reported data on how many boys have gotten the shot since then. HPV vaccination requires three shots over 6 months.

An estimated 75 to 80 percent of men and women are infected with HPV during their lifetime. Most don't develop symptoms and clear it on their own. But some infections lead to genital warts, cervical cancer and other cancers. The study didn't look at cervical cancer rates. It can take many years for such cancers to develop, and not enough time has passed to know the vaccine's impact on cancer rates, CDC officials said.

The study involved interviews and physical examinations of nearly 1,400 teen girls in 2003 through 2006 and of 740 girls in 2007 through 2010.

The vaccine's impact was seen even though only 34 percent of the teens in the second group had received any vaccine. That could be due to "herd immunity" ? when a population is protected from an infection because a large or important smaller group is immune.

Only about 20 percent of those vaccinated got all three doses. That result will likely feed an ongoing discussion about whether all three doses are necessary, Markowitz said.

Overall, the study found no significant change over time in the proportion of teens who'd ever had sex and in those who had multiple sex partners. However, it did find that a higher percentage of vaccinated teens said they'd had three or more sex partners.

That could have driven down infection rates, Markowitz noted, if the teens who got vaccinated were the ones at highest risk of getting an infection and spreading it.

The research was released online by the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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Online:

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