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Pharma & Health
9/05/2012 @ 2:38PM |
When Americans Rejected Small Pox Vaccines
Extract
When I lived in Ann Arbor, my children attended a public school where upwards of 15% of kids were not vaccinated for mumps because their left-wing parents didn’t trust the vaccine industry.  Meanwhile on the right end of the political spectrum, Tea Party heart throb Michelle Bachman famously accused vaccines of causing autism.  How is it that such an advanced technologic country harbors so many vaccine luddites?

A quick glance at the U.S. small pox epidemic of 1900 offers a clue…

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterubel/2012/09/05/when-americans-rejected-small-pox-vaccines/