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The Charlbury anti-vax riots
How did a riot in a rural Oxfordshire town help to change the law and influence today鈥檚 anti-vax movement?
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In 1897, the residents of Charlbury, West Oxfordshire, took to the streets in an anti-vax protest so chaotic that it helped change the law. Is this riot really the reason why the UK hasn鈥檛 seen a compulsory vaccine for over a hundred years? And how much has it influenced the anti-vax movement we see today?
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