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
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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