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The long history of the anti|vaccination movement


History of Anti-Vaccination Movements

In the mid 1970s, an international controversy over the safety of the DTP immunization erupted in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. In the United ...

Anti-vax: the history of a scientific problem - PMC

It is important to note that the anti-vaccination movement dates back to 1796 when the English doctor Edward Jenner introduced the smallpox vaccine. This ...

History of the Anti-Vax Movement - Verywell Health

MMR Vaccine Controversy. A 1998 study turned the anti-vaccine movement into a veritable crusade. British physician Andrew Wakefield claimed ...

The long, strange history of anti-vaccination movements - Vox

So in 1853, the government made the vaccine mandatory. That, according to Durbach, was when the organized anti-vaccination movement began. Some ...

Anti-vaccine activism - Wikipedia

Anti-vaccine activism, which collectively constitutes the "anti-vax" movement, is a set of organized activities proclaiming opposition to vaccination, ...

Anti-vaccinationists past and present - PMC

Methods of disseminating information have changed since the 19th century, but the concerns and activities of anti-vaccination movements in the United Kingdom ...

The anti-vaccination movement - Measles & Rubella Partnership

The anti-vaccination movement has a long history, beginning in France in 1763 and continuing through to today.

THE HISTORY OF ANTI-VACCINATION - UNC School of Medicine

ANTI-VACCINATION SOCIETIES: THE FOUNDATION OF THE ANTI-VACCINE MOVEMENT. • VACCINATION ACT OF 1840 (ENGLAND) – OUTLAWED VARIOLATION ...

Confronting the evolution and expansion of anti-vaccine activism in ...

Over the past two decades, anti-vaccine activism in the USA has evolved from a fringe subculture into an increasingly well organised, ...

First anti-vaccine movement arose from smallpox mandate in England

In the early 19th century, British people finally had access to the first vaccine in history, one that promised to protect them from smallpox.

A history of the Anti-vaxxer movement - EurekAlert!

In "Anti-vaxxers" (on sale this month from The MIT PRESS), Jonathan Berman explores the phenomenon of the anti-vaccination movement, recounting ...

From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination ...

... a long history of questioning the benefits of vaccination ... From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement ...

A History of Hesitancy 2.0

The anti-vaccine movement resulting from the DTP pushback borrowed language and ideas from the concurrent environmentalist movement. To quote Barbra Loe.

COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago

Published by a leading anti-vaccinationist, Dr. Alexander M. Ross, this pamphlet was widely circulated during the smallpox epidemic of 1885 in ...

The anti-vaccination movement that gripped Victorian England - BBC

In the late 19th Century, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in opposition to compulsory smallpox vaccinations.

Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective

Anti-vaccination movements have existed for just as long as the practice of vaccination and have had complex and varied rationales.

The Long History of America's Anti-Vaccination Movement

It's based on exposing people to cowpox virus in a small dose, which activates the immune system. As more people get vaccinated, it creates herd ...

Vaccine hesitancy - Wikipedia

Vaccine hesitancy is complex and context-specific, varying across time, place and vaccines. ... It has existed since the invention of vaccination and pre-dates ...

Tracing the origins of the anti-vaccine movement | PBS News

Tracing the origins of the anti-vaccine movement ... A measles outbreak has reached 14 states and infected more than 100 people. The disease had ...

The inherent racism of anti-vaxx movements - Alliance for Science

The intrinsic racism of anti-vaccination movements began with their historical origin in the 19th century. Inoculation originally referred ...