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<!-- you can have any number of categories here --> [[Category:Public Health Approach]] [[Category:Health Care|100]] [[Category:Science Denialists]] [[Category:Risk]] [[Category:Smallpox]] {{DES | des = Libertarians are split about mandatory vaccination. Those opposed claim it "violates individual liberty" and/or buy into anti-vaxer [[denialism]] and conspiracy theories. Some support mandatory vaccination because otherwise you are putting others at risk. But the fact of the matter is that mandatory vaccination resulted in the only human disease eradication to date: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox smallpox], which killed roughly 5 million per year. | show=}} <!-- insert wiki page text here --> Recent outbreaks of measles (2019) around the world have been occurring where herd immunity (which requires at least 90% vaccination) does not exist. Many of those locales have had low rates of vaccination because of anti-vaccination disinformation. The example of American Samoa had more than 4000 cases (in a nation of 200,000) and more than 60 deaths, mostly of children under 5. More than 190,000 died of measles worldwide in 2018. All preventable. <!-- DPL has problems with categories that have a single quote in them. Use these explicit workarounds. --> <!-- otherwise, we would use {{Links}} and {{Quotes}} --> {{List|title=Vaccination|links=true}} {{Quotations|title=Vaccination|quotes=true}}

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