Requiring Vaccination: Balancing Realistic Risk With Great Preventable Diseases
Despite the indisputable fact that vaccines save millions of lives, their use has come under increasing criticism. In the US, vaccine-preventable infections kill more individuals annually than HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, or traffic accidents (Murphy, 60). Beginning in the 1950s, effective vaccines against major childhood illnesses, such as measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, polio, and tetanus … Read more