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compulsory vaccination and
 
creation of
 
objections to in United States
 
Snyder, Colten
 
Snyder, Kathryn and Joseph
 
Snyderman, Nancy
 
Social good
vs.
individual freedom, compulsory vaccination and
 
Socioeconomic class, resistance to vaccines and
 
Sodium deoxycholate
 
Soper, George
 
Special masters
 
Spencer, Edwin
 
SSPE (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis)
 
Steiner, Rudolf
 
Stephenson, John
 
Stewart, Gordon
 
on cause of HIV/AIDS
 
on pertussis vaccine
 
on severity of pertussis
 
Stork, Travis
 
Stossel, John
 
Ström, Justus
 
Stuart-Smith, Murray
 
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
 
court cases on vaccines and
 
hepatitis B vaccine and
 
pertussis deaths and
 
pertussis vaccine and
 
Sunday Morning
(television program)
 
Sunday Times
(newspaper)
 
Super Nu-Thera
 
Supreme Court,
Jacobson v. Massachusetts
 
Sutherland, Cora
 
Swan, Matthew
 
Swan, Rita and Douglas
 
Swine flu epidemic
 
 
Tatel, Stephanie
 
Tayloe, David
 
Tetanus
 
Tetanus vaccine
 
Texarkana, measles outbreak
 
Thimerosal
 
Omnibus Autism Proceeding and
 
This Week
(television program)
 
Thompson, George
 
Thompson, Lea
 
career after
Vaccine Roulette
 
honor from National Vaccine Information Center
 
Vaccine Roulette
and
 
Thoughtful House
 
ThreeLac
 
Through the Looking Glass
(Carroll)
 
Time
(magazine)
 
Titicut Follies
(film)
 
The Today Show
(television program)
 
Tom, Melanie
 
Toner, Kevin
 
Toxoid
 
“The Tragedy of the Commons” (Hardin)
 
Tuberculosis
 
Tuberculosis vaccine
 
20/20
(television program)
 
Twitchell, David and Ginger
 
Twitchell, Robyn
 
Typhoid fever
 
Typhoid Mary
 
 
United Kingdom, measles outbreaks.
See also
England
 
United States Court of Claims
 
Unvaccinated children, effect on community
 
U.S. News and World Report
(magazine)
 
USA Today
(newspaper)
 
Usui, Mikao
 
 
Vaccination.
See
Compulsory vaccination; Immunization; Mandatory vaccination
 
“Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having” (Maher)
 
Vaccination rates.
See
Immunization rates
 
Vaccinations and Lockjaw
(Higgins)
 
Vaccination schedules
 
alternative
 
Vaccination Vampire
(pamphlet)
 
Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS)
 
rotavirus vaccine withdrawal and
 
Vaccine advocacy/advocates
 
anti-vaccine groups and
 
The Vaccine Book
(Sears)
 
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)
 
conspiracy theorists and
 
expert witnesses
 
Omnibus Autism Proceeding
 
unusual rulings
 
Vaccine inspectors
 
Vaccine mandates, campaign against
 
Vaccine manufacturers
 
decline in number of
 
market stabilization and
 
Vaccine policy, pediatrician’s
 
Vaccine-preventable diseases, severity of
 
.
See also individual diseases
 
Vaccines
 
aluminum in
 
autism and (
see
Autism)
 
chemicals in
 
claims of phantom ingredients in
 
claim that are unnatural
 
concomitant-use studies
 
conspiracy theory and
 
false claims of harm
 
fear of
 
federal funding for
 
history of problems with
 
immunological challenge of
 
mercury in
 
multiple sclerosis and
 
religious beliefs and
 
school immunization requirements
 
shortages of
 
side effects/allergic reactions
 
social class and resistance to
 
testing
 
See also individual vaccines
 
Vaccine safety advocacy
 
Fisher and
 
Salamone and
 
Vaccine Safety DataLink
 
Vaccine toxins, autism and
 
VAERS.
See
Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS)
 
Varicella.
See under
Chickenpox
 
Vashon Island (Washington)
 
Vermont, pertussis outbreak
 
VICP.
See
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)
 
Vinnedge, Debi
 
Virchow, Rudolf
 
Virginia, measles outbreak
 
Virtue, Doreen
 
Vitamin D
 
von Recklinghausen, Frederich Daniel
 
Voodoo Histories
(Aaronovitch)
 
 
Wakefield, Andrew
 
criticism of
 
photos
 
Walker, Laurie
 
Walker, Shauntay
 
Wallace, Amy
 
Wall Street Journal
(newspaper)
 
Walters, Barbara
 
Waltner, James
 
Warren, Charles
 
Washington, measles outbreak
 
Washington Post
(newspaper)
 
Waxman, Henry
 
Wellcome Foundation
 
Wenk, Eugene
 
Werderitsch, Dorothy
 
Werne, Jacob
 
Wexler, Deborah
 
White, Tyler
 
Whitestone, Heather
 
Whitney, Aubrey
 
Whitney, Edward
 
Whooping cough.
See under
Pertussis
 
Willard Parker Hospital
 
Williams, George
 
Williams, Kathi
 
Williams, Lisa
 
Williams, Ted
 
Wilson, John
 
Winfrey, Oprah
 
Wired
(magazine)
 
Wisconsin, measles outbreak
 
Wiseman, Frederick
 
World News Tonight
(television program)
 
Wright family, religious exemption to vaccination requirements and
 
Wuerger, Heidi
 
 
Wyeth Laboratories
 
 
Yankovich, Abra
 
Yarkin, Celina
 
Yellow fever vaccine
 
YOU: Having a Baby
(Oz & Roizen)
 
Young, Bobby
 
 
Zucht, Rosalyn
 
Copyright © 2011 by Paul A. Offit, M.D.
 
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Offit, Paul A.
Deadly choices : how the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all / Paul A. Offit.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-0-762-44298-0
1. Vaccination of children. 2. Vaccination of children—History. 3. Vaccination of children—Complications. 4. Vaccines—Health aspects. I. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Attitude to Health—Popular Works. 2. Vaccination—trends—Popular Works. 3. History, 20th Century—Popular Works. W 85 O32d 2010]
RJ240.O38 2010
614.4’ 7083—dc22
2010022446
 

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