Vaccination policies: individual rights v community health
BMJPublished 4 December 1999Open access
Susan King
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In this week's BMJ, Panagiotopoulos et al describe the history of the use of rubella vaccine in Greece and show that partial vaccine coverage led to a period in which susceptibility to rubella among childbearing women was actually increased.
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