What is it about?

The very success of immunization campaigns has lead to complacency in the public and opened the door to immunization deniers

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Why is it important?

With falling immunization rates leading to outbreaks of previously eradicated diseases, modern society is at risk of returning to pre-immunization epidemics of common preventable illnesses.

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Using his personal experiences in developed and undeveloped countries, where lack of immunization has led to devastating consequences, the author describes the thinking behind vaccine deniers and how the counteract fuzzy thinking about vaccines.

Michael Klein
University of British Columbia

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This page is a summary of: Nothing Fails Like Success-The Great Immunization Debate, Birth, March 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/birt.12169.
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