All posts tagged "anti-vaxxer"

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  Maine

  Island Castaways, New England’s Huddled Masses Yearning to Get Well

  Island castaways don’t have it easy. Just ask Robinson Crusoe. Yet, for centuries, medical and political authorities relied on the general inaccessibility...

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  Massachusetts

  Henning Jacobson Loses His Fight With the Board of Public Health Over Vaccination

  Henning Jacobson, a Swedish minister, in 1905 refused vaccination during a smallpox epidemic in Cambridge, Mass., in 1905. Then he refused to...