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  • Title: Immunization news.
    Author: World Health Organization WHO. Expanded Programme on Immunization EPI.
    Journal: Vaccine Immun News; 1998 Mar; (6):8. PubMed ID: 12179911.
    Abstract:
    A study recently published in the Lancet compared the incidence of pertussis between 1940 and 1996 in countries where vaccination with DTP vaccine reached a steady 90-100% of the population for many years against those in which coverage fell sharply following propaganda-driven vaccine scares. It was found that the incidence of a disease can be up to 100 times higher in a country where vaccination against the disease is disrupted by anti-vaccine movements than in countries where coverage of the population with the vaccine always remains high. It can take 10-20 years to reverse the potentially major damage caused by anti-vaccination movements. There may have been hundreds of thousands of cases of pertussis among children deprived of vaccine, while tens of thousands of cases of disease-related clinical complications such as pneumonia, encephalopathy, and seizures may have resulted.
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