The Anti-Vaccination Movement

Anti-Vaccination Within the past decade and a half there has been a new movement called the Anti-Vaccination movement. The reason for this movement was mostly due to the fact that many concerned parents and a small group of doctors questioned whether or not the positive effects of vaccination were outweighed by the negatives. In the US alone vaccination rates are above 95% according to the CDC. Because of this high use it was assumed that it had to be the cause of so many ill effects. What sparked most of this was back in 1998 by a researcher named Andrew Wakefield who along with a few of his colleagues conducted and published a study showing the connection of the mumps-measles-rubella vaccine. They found that there was a virus within the vaccine that could cause some children to break out with a chronic measles infection which ultimately led to autism. This eventually led to groups of parents not wanting to risk their children’s wellbeing so they decided not to get them vaccinated which led to a rise in other preventable diseases. This led to extensive amounts of research to be done on the correlation between vaccinated and non-vaccinated children who developed autism, this led to the realization that there was no
This group believed/believes that the mercury in the vaccines used today is what is to blame for the cause of autism in children. Those who believe that the mercury is the cause “Argue that the ethylmercury found in thimerosal was given in doses exceeding Environmental Protection Agency Limits.”(Steven Novella) Meaning that the amount of mercury given to the children is too high for their bodies to handle. Which leads some to believe that for those infants who are underweight or born prematurely are more susceptible to over