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Wednesday 10 June 2015

Survey to shine light on vaccination fears

A NEW national survey aims to expose the fears that drive parents to reject or delay vaccinating their children.

THE survey, the first of its kind in almost 20 years, could lead to more effective education campaigns to improve vaccination rates.

University of Queensland researcher Cassandra Dittman says little is known about attitudes held by the current generation of Australian parents. She suspects many parents are probably best described as vaccine hesitant.

anarchic_teapot's insight:
Australia is of course the primary infestation zone for that especially virulent band of anti-health activists led by Meryl Dorey.

However, the disinformation disseminated by the Usual Suspects on Internet (and boy, do they know how to game the search engine results) must have a lot to do with it.

What we don't know is: why do apparently reasonable and educated people listen to these often transparently mendacious quacks, profiteers and quasi-religious fanatics?

See it on Scoop.it, via Vaxfax Monitor

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