Vaccines averted four million
cases of disease and thousands of deaths in the 115 years
between 1900 and 2015, according to a report out Friday.
The Higher Health Institute report assessed the impact of
vaccines on diphtheria, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B, whooping
cough, measles, mumps, scarlet fever, smallpox and
meningococcus, finding that many of these had been "virtually
eradicated".
Italy's anti-vaccine movement objects to 10 compulsory
vaccinations for school admission.
The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement says the vaccinations
should be recommended rather than made obligatory.
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