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Vaccines in America – Vaccine Law

Course descriptionVaccination laws have been in place in the US since 1905 with the passage of Jacobson vs Massachusetts, when the US government ruled that the good of all public health supersedes the right of the individual. The law was put in place when the general public was only confronted with one vaccination: smallpox. Today, […]

Vaccines in America – Vaccine Politics

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Objectives The pharmaceutical industry and lobbying firms have long pushed for more money from the US government, but it began in earnest after the events of Sept 11, 2001, better known as 911. Fears about the possibility of bioterrorism attacks with smallpox and even anthrax, funneled billions of tax dollars into the manufacture, distribution and

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