Vaccination
Diverse doubts: How vaccine scepticism takes root
Governments and scientists around the world are championing vaccination as the way to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dec 3, 2021
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News tagged with anti-vax
Psychology & Psychiatry
Anger, grievance, resentment: We need to understand how anti-vaxxers feel to make sense of their actions
It is not entirely irrational to fear needles (or to suffer from trypanophobia for those who prefer the Greek term). Likewise, feeling anxious about injecting a foreign substance into the bloodstream seems quite reasonable.
Nov 15, 2021
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Vaccination
Swiss authorise COVID booster jabs for the vulnerable
Switzerland on Tuesday authorised booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines for the over-65s, as it urged those with no protection at all to get immunised.
Oct 26, 2021
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Largest operator of nursing homes in U.S. issues vaccine mandate for all workers
(HealthDay)—The United States' largest operator of nursing homes said Wednesday that its workers must get vaccinated against COVID-19 if they want to keep their jobs.
Aug 5, 2021
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Vaccination
In vaccine-sceptic France, some medics also hesitate
As the French government seeks to ramp up its lagging COVID-19 vaccination campaign, it faces a tricky challenge: convincing all doctors to back the jabs, even though some share the same hesitations as the general population.
Jan 8, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Israeli dies after contracting measles on flight from New York
An Israeli flight attendant has died months after contracting measles on a flight from New York to Tel Aviv, Israel's health ministry and local media said Wednesday.
Aug 14, 2019
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Vaccination
Experts discuss measles outbreak and the peril of anti-vax misinformation
Measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, but by early June, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 1,022 cases in 28 states, the most since 1992.
Jun 12, 2019
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Health
Anti-vaxxers appear to be losing ground in the online vaccine debate
As measles outbreaks spread across the U.S., our new look at how information about vaccine safety and reliability spreads online suggests that the tide may be turning against the anti-vaccination movement.
Apr 2, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Getting to the bottom of anti-vaccine attitudes
A study that helps explain why anti-vaccine attitudes still persist, despite clear evidence on the benefits of immunization to public health has been selected by an international scientific committee to be given the Atlas ...
Jan 15, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Searching for a vaccine against mistrust
All of the following happened during a three-week stretch in August:
Dec 11, 2018
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