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Victims, vectors and villains: are those who opt out of vaccination morally responsible for the deaths of others?
- Correspondence to Dr Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia; zeb.jamrozik{at}monash.edu
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Victims, vectors and villains: are those who opt out of vaccination morally responsible for the deaths of others?
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- Received December 17, 2015
- Revised August 22, 2016
- Accepted September 6, 2016
- First published October 3, 2016.
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November 23, 2016
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