From Newsgroup: nz.politics
Hostility to vaccination is as old as vaccination itself. The BBC
offers a nice potted history here <
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250905-the-strange-history-of-the-anti-vaccine-movement>.
Choice quote:
The "personal freedom" argument, in particular, seemed to be
especially compelling to the residents of Stockholm, Sweden rCo only
40% of whom were vaccinated against smallpox in 1873, while in the
rest of the country, 90% of the population was. The following
year, a massive smallpox outbreak hit Sweden, leading to a death
toll of 330 per 10,000 residents of Stockholm rCo more than 10 times
the mortality rate for the rest of Sweden. In the outbreak's wake,
Stockholm saw a sharp rise in the number of people who sought out
immunisations.
History will repeat, wonrCOt it ...
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