As disease and death reigned around them, some Americans declared that
they would never get vaccinated and raged at government efforts to compel
them. Anti-vaccination groups spread propaganda about terrible side effects
and corrupt doctors. State officials tried to ban mandates, and people made
fake vaccination certificates to evade inoculation rules already in place.
The years were 1898 to 1903, and the disease was smallpox. News articles
and health board reports describe crowds of parents marching to schoolhouses
to demand that their unvaccinated children be allowed in.
— "Pox: An American History" by US historia Michael Willrich, 2014.
they would never get vaccinated and raged at government efforts to compel
them. Anti-vaccination groups spread propaganda about terrible side effects
and corrupt doctors. State officials tried to ban mandates, and people made
fake vaccination certificates to evade inoculation rules already in place.
The years were 1898 to 1903, and the disease was smallpox. News articles
and health board reports describe crowds of parents marching to schoolhouses
to demand that their unvaccinated children be allowed in.
— "Pox: An American History" by US historia Michael Willrich, 2014.
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