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The Smallpox Vaccination of Health Care Workers: Professional Obligations and Defense against Bioterrorism
Author(s) -
MAY THOMAS,
AULISIO MARK P.,
SILVERMAN ROSS D.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528633
Subject(s) - smallpox , vaccination , smallpox vaccination , medicine , medical emergency , environmental health , virology
Health care workers have not gone along with President Bush's request that they be vaccinated against smallpox in order to prepare the nation's health care system for a terrorist attack using the virus. But there is no professional moral obligation to receive the vaccination—either as a matter of public health or as a matter of national security.
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