Lax vaccine laws leads to whooping cough

October 11, 2006

Again, vaccines are mandatory and not giving them is akin to child abuse:

Compared with stricter states, those with easy exemption policies had about 50 percent more whooping cough cases, according to the study. Also, about 50 percent more people got whooping cough in states that allowed personal-belief exemptions, compared with those allowing only religious exemptions, the study found.



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