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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the seriously? dept.

An amendment from Italy's anti-establishment government that removes mandatory vaccination for schoolchildren is sending shock waves through the country's scientific and medical community.

It suspends for a year a law that requires parents to provide proof of 10 routine vaccinations when enrolling their children in nurseries or preschools. The amendment was approved by Italy's upper house of parliament on Friday by 148 to 110 votes and still has to pass the lower house.

The law had originally been introduced by the Democratic Party in July 2017 amid an ongoing outbreak of measles that saw 5,004 cases reported in 2017 -- the second-highest figure in Europe after Romania -- according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Italy accounted for 34% of all measles cases reported by countries in the European Economic Area, the center said.

Italy's Five Star movement and its coalition partner, the far-right League, both voiced their opposition to compulsory vaccinations, claiming they discourage school inclusion.

English Language Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07/health/italy-anti-vaccine-law-measles-intl/index.html


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @08:42PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @08:42PM (#718978)

    You'd give up your Captain's chair so easily?

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:52PM (6 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday August 08 2018, @09:52PM (#719046) Homepage Journal

    Sorry, slappy, I create. What do you do?

    --
    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:00PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:00PM (#719055)

      Sorry, slappy, I create. What do you do?

      hahahahaha
      sitting in a machine room isn't creating
      you are a useless parasite on the ass of the world with delusions of self importance

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:15PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:15PM (#719067)

        Actually, it is. It created this place. Feel free to go elsewhere and create your own.

        • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:21PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:21PM (#719072)

          Nah bruh, he hacked his own personal opinions into the code of this place which came from slashdot.

          And if you think for a second that this site has any importance in the world, you gotta leave that basement more often.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:00PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:00PM (#719092)

      Well none of the other ACs were me, can't take a joke huh? You mock people all the time but one funny jab and you go all serious.

      I happen to also create, and I've been a teacher, a researcher, and early in life I even did construction!

      I'd give it all up to Captain a starship though, even if it is full of your cousins :P

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:03AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:03AM (#719211)
        ...Wait, which AC am I? I kinda lost track here...
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:38AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 09 2018, @03:38AM (#719235)

          You're AC #719211

          What you didn't think you were being tracked? lol it is RIGHT THERE!