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Over a Hundred Hospitals Across the Country Refuse to Implement Bush’s Smallpox Vaccination Program: Doctors and Nurses Debate the Cdc

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    The State of Arizona’s largest hospital chain has become the latest to refuse to vaccinate doctors, nurses and other front-line workers against smallpox under the Bush administration’s voluntary smallpox vaccination program.

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