Should Vaccines Be Mandatory Essay

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TThe Vaccination Epidemic
Some of the biggest epidemics in the modern era have all but disappeared in first-world countries because doctors and scientists have discovered cures in the form of vaccines. Thousands of people are dying every year from preventable diseases because they’re refusing to get themselves and or their children vaccinated on account of bogus claims and false studies. Vaccinations should be mandatory because it prevents the spread of diseases to people who can’t afford them, it stops epidemics from happening and killing millions of people, and diseases that have already gone away because of vaccinations won’t come back. Vaccines are the leading cause of disease prevention in the world, given this fact, though there is still a large amount of people who …show more content…

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