America is far from the only country grappling with anti-vaxxer misinformation—and preventable diseases.
Anti-vaxxers in America continue to question the validity of vaccines, sometimes with devastating results: In the first two months of 2019, 159 cases of measles were diagnosed—more than was reported in all of 2017.
Surprisingly the birthplace of immunology has the lowest measles vaccination rates in Europe: Only 90 percent of citizens are vaccinated, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, even though at least 90-95% of a community needs to be vaccinated against measles to achieve herd immunity.
In 2018, the CDC issued a Level 1 Alert, warning American travelers that they should make sure they are vaccinated against measles before visiting France. In 2017, 5,000 people were diagnosed with measles, and four unvaccinated people died. That outbreak led M5S to backpedal on its anti-vaxx stance and, in November 2018, call for almost a million children to be vaccinated to halt the spread of measles.
“The current epidemic is the most massive in the entire post-vaccine period,” pediatric infectious disease specialist Nataliya Vynnyk told Science. Up to a third of Ukrainian parents oppose vaccinations, according to a 2012 UNICEF survey, which found that only half of children were fully immunized, down from 80 percent in 2008.
Poland Pawel Kukiz, leader of Kukiz'15 party, arrives for a TV debate in Warsaw in 2015. JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images In March 2019, National Health Service director Simon Stevens blamed misinformation on social media for the dip."We are not being helped on this front by the fact that although nine in 10 parents support vaccination, half of them say they have seen fake messages about vaccination on social media."
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