Okay, All You Esquires, Economists and Wonks....

[purejuice]

...riddle me this. I can sort of understand the more paranoid sovereign Tuskegee experiment reasons people might not want to submit to laws mandating innoculations.

First of all, are there such laws? Must I inoculate my children against measles, pox, and everything else?

Second, is there case law, actual precedents, in which someone has been held liable for spreading or carrying disease?

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[garrity]

Let me add: I know this is partially tangential t your question. But I can have this rant in my heart because there isn't enough legal stricture in this matter. There flatly ought to be, even if it only covers the TDAP, MMR, and HEPB vaxes. There is no ethical question about giving children a fighting chance at long-term health, and the legal precedents about child neglect make this a no-brainer.