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Should measles vaccination be compulsory?
Compulsory vaccination would exacerbate resistance
BMJ 2019; 366 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l4464 (Published 04 July 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;366:l4464
- Giuseppe Vetrugno, risk manager and forensic pathologist1,
- Michela Cicconi, forensic pathologist and trainee in public health1,
- Federica Foti, trainee in forensic medicine1,
- Angelico Spagnolo, forensic pathologist1,
- Fabio De-Giorgio, forensic pathologist2
- 1Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “A. Gemelli” IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
- 2Section of Legal Medicine, Institute of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
- giuseppe.vetrugno{at}policlinicogemelli.it
Vaccination programmes are an extension of the solidarity principle on which the foundations of living in a community are based. Health is a fundamental right of the individual, but it is also the expression of a collective interest in all community members having this right.
If vaccination is needed to protect collective health, then being part of a community should …
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