Immunization

Resources

• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• Public Health Law Research. State Vaccination Requirements and Exemption Laws. This dataset and codebook, produced by Tony Yang and Vicky Debold of George Mason University, includes laws pertaining to U.S. immunization requirements and immunization exemptions.
• DeBold, Tynan and Dov Friedman. Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines (charts). Wall Street Journal 2.11.15). The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced. The heat maps below show number of cases per 100,000 people by state for measles, Hepatitis A, mumps, pertussis (Whooping Cough). polio, rubella and small pox.
• Vaccine Injury Compensation Issue & Web Links (HealthHippo)
• Children’s Defense Fund
• Vaccines (Health Affairs topic page)
• 30 Blogs For and Against Vaccinations (Nanny Babysitter). Includes blogs organized around the following topics:
  • Vaccinations and Infants
  • MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) Vaccines and Autism
  • Flu Vaccine: Not Good for Your Child
  • Hepatitis
  • Mandatory HPV Vaccine
  • School Vaccine Requirements
• See Human Papilloma Virus