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Vaccine hesitancy is a delay in acceptance, or refusal, of vaccines despite the availability of vaccine services and supporting evidence. The term covers refusals to vaccinate, delaying vaccines, accepting vaccines but remaining uncertain about their use, or using certain vaccines but not others.
The World Health Organization has classified vaccine related misinformation into five topic areas. These are: threat of disease (vaccine preventable diseases are harmless), trust (questioning the trustworthiness of healthcare authorities who administer vaccines), alternative methods (such as alternative medicine to replace vaccination), effectiveness (vaccines do not work) and safety (vaccines ...
Despite the high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s. [315] [316] This has led some historians to label the Spanish flu a "forgotten pandemic". [173]
"The influenza vaccine is a killed virus vaccine," Dr. Yancey says. "You are as likely to get influenza from the flu shot as your boiled egg is to hatch into a chicken. It is not going to happen.
Jump ahead another 120 years or so to 1918 when the first flu shot was administered to the U.S. military in an attempt to thwart the Spanish Flu; vaccines that followed include those to combat ...
The following is a list of strains for the Northern Hemisphere influenza season recommended by the World Health Organization.Starting in the 2012–2013 season, the recommendation shifted to include the composition of a quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV) that contains both influenza B lineages, alongside a trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) containing one influenza B lineage.
With a new RSV vaccine urged for pregnant women and as a possible "tripledemic" approaches, more are hesitant about getting Covid, flu and Tdap vaccines, the CDC finds. Vaccine hesitancy ...
The book addresses misinformation related to vaccination, and asks how vaccine rumors start and why they do not go away. [1] [4] Looking chiefly at high-income countries, the book examines social, political, psychological and cultural factors that make up the various mind-sets to vaccination. [2]