Vaccine hesitancy
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Vaccine hesitancy is a delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability and supporting evidence of effectivity. The term also includes accepting vaccines but remaining uncertain about t
An anti-vaccination activist with a false claim that children can be effectively protected from disease solely by natural immunity
U.S. President Gerald Ford receiving his vaccine for the swine flu
An anti-vaccination caricature by James Gillray, The Cow-Pock – or – The Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation! (1802)
Edward Jenner
Immunity (medicine)
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In biology, immunity is the state of being insusceptible or resistant to a noxious agent or process, especially a pathogen or infectious disease. Immunity may occur naturally or be produced by prior e
Vaccine hesitancy
…not containing proteins the HPV viruses use to inhibit immune response. While it is true that infection with certain illnesses may produce lifelong immunity, many natural infections do not produce lifelong immunity, while carrying a higher risk of harming a person's health than vaccines. For example, natural…
A representation of the cholera epidemic of the 19th century
Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, 1885, by Albert Edelfelt
One of the first bottles of diphtheria antitoxin produced (dated 1895)
Poster from before the 1979 eradication of smallpox, promoting vaccination