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antivaccination

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[ an-tee-vak-suh-ney-shuhn, an-tahy- ]

adjective

  1. opposed to vaccines and vaccination:

    An image of a skeleton was adopted by the 19th-century anti-vaccination movement to scare people, especially parents, into forgoing smallpox vaccination.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of antivaccination1

First recorded in 1875–80; anti- ( def ) + vaccination ( def )
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That includes states in which antivaccination politics reign, such as Florida, where the Republican-appointed surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, has issued antivax recommendations so misleading that he was publicly rebuked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.

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Giorgos Floridis, a former Socialist Cabinet minister from the town of Kilkis in northern Greece — a Niki stronghold — told The Associated Press that Niki is rooted in pandemic-era antivaccination movements.

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Maybe you’re repulsed by the open racism voiced by Fox star anchor Tucker Carlson, not to mention his noxious spouting of antimasking and antivaccination claptrap that undermines public health.

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Newsom portrayed the campaign to oust the governor as a “life and death†battle against Trumpism and far-right antivaccination activists, and he seized on the top Republican trying to replace him, conservative talk radio host Larry Elder.

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In Rockland County, where antivaccination sentiment runs high, just 60% of children under age 2 had received the full three doses of IPV in August.

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