Implications of the World Health Organization’s Recommendations During Mass Gatherings in Light of Individual Rights in the United States and Other Countries

Abstract

Vaccination programs started developing in the late eighteenth century to prevent smallpox. Since then, vaccinations have become one of the most important and widely used public health measures to prevent the spread of epidemic diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) listed vaccinations as the first great public health achievement in the United States from 1900 to 1999. State legal requirements, as well as federal funding, support vaccination programs. Every state in the United States has the power to mandate