The "Anti-Vaxxer" movement (anti-vacunas) today
The anti-Vacunas movement has been the same time as the first vaccine created. To enter into context I will briefly explain that it is a vaccine: according to the dictionary it is a “substance composed of a suspension of attenuated or dead microorganisms that is introduced into the body to prevent and treat certain infectious diseases;It stimulates the formation of antibodies with which an immunization against these diseases is achieved ”.
Thanks to the Internet, (specifying social networks), numerous books published defending this ideology, and including supporting celebrities, this idea jump to the mainstream focus during the 2010s decade in a alarming way, where mass dissemination platforms such as Facebook orTwitter have been in charge of promoting movement and attracting new people who are in favor and who will be responsible for promoting it.
I refer to this movement and its growth with the word "alarming" since last year the World Health Organization included its list of “The 10 threats to world health 2019” occupying third place on that list, dueto which according to this (WHO) “doubts about vaccines (reluctance or rejection) threatens to reverse the progress made in the fight against preventable diseases for vaccination. Vaccination is one of the most profitable ways to avoid the disease: it currently prevents 2 to 3 million deaths per year and another 1.5 million could be avoided if world coverage would be improved.
Measles, for example, recorded a 30% increase in cases worldwide. The reasons for this increase are complex, and not all are due to doubts about vaccines. However, some countries that were close to eliminating the disease have seen a resurgence.
Who are the "anti-vaxxers" and what are your arguments?
It is called "anti-vaxxer" that individual who opposes the application and distribution of vaccines arguing, which in a few words means that they are anything but beneficial to health, they are groups formed mostly by worried parents anduninformed, religious organizations, liberal communities and pseudoscientific.
The first known Anti-Vaccan protest was in Europe in the seventeenth century in the middle of the crisis due to deaths caused by the smallpox epidemic Dr. Edward Jenner began to inject into small groups of people a weaker version of smallpox in order toto make them immune to the pandemic. But as always, there were soon opponents of treatment so this enraged as much as people of the church, civilians, as well as other doctors who demanded a high injections under the premise that like this (for them) "alleged antidote ”came from cows, it would cause people to become cows or cows hybrid, that those who received the vaccine were condemned to become half human and half cow because the vaccine was an impediment to be fulfilledGod’s will.
Today we have more scientific information and means from which to obtain this information unlike in those times where ignorance seized the majority of civilians and even people with previous studies as doctors, but this still means that the probability thatDisinformation is obtained is higher since these people are everywhere and although for many their arguments they seem stupid, ignorant and out of place there is another percentage of the population that is manipulable and blindly believes in these arguments and in those who preach them.
With arguments that are divided into four sections, which consist of: security, effectiveness, importance, and beliefs and values.
Security
This is related to vaccines with other diseases and health problems
"Vaccines are not really safe since vaccines contain toxic substances that are harmful to health such as mercury and aluminum"
"Vaccines actually cause the diseases that claim to prevent" (from this point other conspiracy theories that involve the very popular "new world order" and a "elite" strategy to get rid and reduce overpopulation in the world) derive from the world)
"Vaccines are the cause of autism"
Effectiveness
"It has not been shown to actually work"
"Vaccines do not always work"
"There are better alternatives to vaccines"
Importance
"Vaccines prevents diseases that no longer exist" (here it returns to the matter of conspiracy theories that ensure that there are many diseases that actually existed and that are only to cause panic among the crowds, case we are currently seeing with the pandemicof coronavirus)
Values and beliefs
"Vaccines are a scam of the pharmaceutical industry"
"Governments are allied with the pharmaceutical industry"
"The information that occurs about vaccines is false, it is incomplete or manipulated"
"Natural alternatives are better"
"According to their religion, it alters the natural course of life"
Demonstrating and correcting information
After having already mentioned the arguments that the anti-vaccine groups give to support their beliefs would be pertinent to analyze each of these arguments and verify their veracity and if they really are a contribution to patience or if only contributing to the massive misinformation.
Starting with security arguments we see that one of the main arguments given by these groups to justify their cause is that: “Vaccines are not really safe since vaccines contain toxic substances that are harmful to health such as mercuryand aluminum "
It is true that vaccines contain these substances but it is never said what is the amount necessary to be considered harmful and what is the amount included in vaccines.
“Aluminum is present in many hydroxide, phosphate or phosphohydroxide vaccines. Adjuvants are present in vaccines to increase the immune effect and, in some, to ensure effectiveness. “The dose found in a vaccine is minimal (less than 1% of the compound) and considering that a child’s vaccination scheme consists of 22 (24 with additional) vaccines over 6 years and that this with theTime The organism is discarding it through the urine or by the tract, it includes gastrointestinal. Mercury does not come directly in vaccines, but is in a substance called "timerosal" and this substance does not pass from 0.05 mg in a vaccine (depending on the brand or manufacturing laboratory) apart from that it is only in five of the vaccines in the official vaccination calendar of Mexico 2019-2020
The next is that "vaccines are the cause of autism" and the truth is that it has not yet proven what the cause of autism is different theories that relate it to environmental or genetic factors but they are only theories
One of the arguments classified as effectiveness says that "it has not been shown to actually work"
But according to a statistic of the United States Public Health Service, polio cases went from more than 50,000 annually to zero during the 1960’s, but this movement also only proves the effectiveness of vaccines since in 2015 the centerFor disease prevention and control, CDC) a 300% increase in measles and WHO figures indicate that in 2018 in Europe there were approximately 37 dead due to this disease.
conclusion
Thanks to vaccines and over time it is assumed that disease records must go down but seem to rise since 2016, it is understandable that in sub-developed countries, where they have a very flattering climate and very precarious health conditions,Without including the economic level of the country, these diseases do not have a rapid decrease, but in continents where it has good infrastructure and a higher level of quality of life the rise of these diseases only reflects the consequences of ignorance and misinformation and this is very unfortunate alreadythat diseases that were considered eradicated or that were about to;Return and mean a higher health risk. In my opinion vaccinating is a social commitment, since you are contributing to avoid pandemics, and you are helping others.
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