The Smallpox Vaccination of Health Care Workers: Professional Obligations and Defense against Bioterrorism

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Hastings Center Report 33 (5):26-33 (2003)
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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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