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Volume 361:723-724 August 13, 2009 Number 7
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Vaccine Refusal and the Risks of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

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To the Editor: Omer et al. (May 7 issue)1 skirt the crucial question: Does a developed, educated democracy such as that in the United States still need compulsory vaccination laws to achieve target compliance rates of 90 to 95%? It was the legislation for compulsory smallpox vaccination that led to the conscientious objector laws in the United States and the United Kingdom. Jacobson may have lost the 1905 Supreme Court case2 against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but the court concluded that the state government could not pass laws in order to protect an individual person but could do so to . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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