Vaccine Scares Could Become More Common, Experts Say | MyHealthNewsDaily.com

Via Scoop.itVirology News

“Vaccine scares that lead portions of the population to forgo vaccination could become more common as more diseases become eradicated.”

 

This is becoming a major problem for developed countries – that is to say, high GDP countries where people mostly have jobs and houses and electricity, and TV – and of course, that bringer of disinformation about vaccines, the internet.

 

Seriously: there are some 300 000 ANTI-vaccine sites out there, according to contacts in the USA, and some of them are so rabid they would make neo-nazis look respectable.

 

As I have written elsewhere – in a comment on an article in The Scientist – it would be ironic if developing countries started instituting stricter vaccination controls for travellers from the more affluent world.  It is coming, though: the first importations of diseases like measles from Europe to the Americas have already occurred, and I am sure the incidence of these reports will rise as vaccine paranoia grows.

Via www.myhealthnewsdaily.com

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