WASHINGTON, March 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S.
Census Bureau:
MANDATORY VACCINATIONS
Profile America — Friday, March
6th. Seemingly out of nowhere, the issue of mandatory
vaccinations has been in the news recently, particularly in
conjunction with an upsurge in cases of measles. Governmental
involvement in vaccination traces back to this date in 1810. That's
when Massachusetts enacted a law
to "diffuse the benefits of inoculation for the Cow-Pox." Such
vaccinations of the mild, bovine cowpox virus immunized humans from
smallpox, then a leading cause of disfiguring illness and death.
This particular discovery dated from Great Britain just 14 years earlier. From
producing simple cosmetics to complex vaccines and antibiotics, the
pharmaceutical industry encompasses some 12,000 establishments
doing over $250 billion of yearly
business. You can find more facts about America from the U.S.
Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.
Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 4918
Cowpox/smallpox:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/141309/cowpox
Background:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/302579/Edward-Jenner
Pharmaceuticals/ NAICS 13500:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ECN_2007_US_42SLLS1&prodType=table
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