I frequently point out how antivaccine activists really, really don’t want to admit that they are, in fact, antivaccine, so frequently, in fact, that I have a series that I call The annals of “I’m not antivaccine.” It’s already up to part 21. It could easily be up to part 51, or 101, or even 1,001. The only reason it isn’t is because I don’t want to devote this blog to nothing other than how antivaccine activists who deny they’re antivaccine routinely inadvertently reveal the truth. If there’s one area in which antivaccinationists reveal themselves to be antivaccine, it’s in their reaction to any sort of efforts to encourage vaccination. Given how vaccination protects populations from vaccine-preventable diseases, it’s important to maintain high levels of vaccination. The reason, of course, is that a high percentage of any given population (usually at least 90%) needs to be protected from any given disease to achieve herd immunity to that disease. Basically, herd immunity (sometimes also called “community immunity” in deference to people who don’t like the connotation of the word “herd”) is general immunity to a pathogen in a population based on acquired immunity to it by a large proportion of that… Read full this story
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