Mandatory Vaccination Case Study

Many states followed Massachusetts and required children to get vaccinated upon entering school. Jenner and Waterhouse were not the only ones to experiment with vaccines. Louis Pasteur created the first laboratory made vaccine that is mostly found in chickens. Pasteur also created many vaccines for other diseases that were eliminated, and are still around today. Many states had made it mandatory for students to get vaccinated when entering school. There were numerous court cases that challenged the mandatory vaccine law. The court declined to hear many of the cases because there were so many children going to public school so they were worried about the children’s safety. A doctor by the name of Jonas Salk created a vaccine for the disease