Why A Court Once Ordered Kids Vaccinated Against Their Parents' Will
Posted on AllSides February 19th, 2015
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A highly contagious disease was sweeping across the United States. Thousands of children were sick and some were dying. In the midst of this outbreak, health officials did something that experts say had never been done before and hasn't been done since. They forced parents to vaccinate their children.
It sounds like something that would have happened a hundred years ago. But this was 1991 — and the disease was measles.
Dr. Robert Ross was deputy health commissioner of the hardest-hit city, Philadelphia, where the outbreak was centered around the...
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