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Books
Resistant
Why a century-old battle over vaccination continues to rage.
by Michael Specter May 30, 2013
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2011/05/30/110530crbo_books_specter

BOOK review about the battle over vaccination. Smallpox claimed the lives of tens of thousands of French soldiers during the Franco-Prussian War, yet the Prussians lost fewer than five hundred men. That was because Prussia vaccinated its entire Army against the virus, and France did not. By the end…