The great vaccine paradox

摘要

People have deep and irrational suspicion of vaccines.This mistrust has actually been studied and it registers in the top ten chart of World Health Organization(WHO) threats to global health.The successful MMR vaccine for example,became a focus of concern when a piece of research,since totally discredited,linked MMR to autism.After it was published,the number of child immunisations declined and a spike in the number of deaths both in Europe and globally was detected.There is no proof that the spike was directly linked to bad publicity and it's likely many factors were in play.However,with a staggering 142,000,mostly children under five dying,from measles in 2018,the WHO felt obliged to publish a review,spelling out that three vaccines MMR,MMRV and MMR+V seem to have no links with autism.