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France most skeptical country about vaccine safety
The French had less confidence in the safety of vaccines than the residents of 66 other countries recently surveyed by researchers.
A team lead by anthropologist Heidi Larson of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine conducted what it contends is the largest survey on confidence in immunization to date, interviewing more than 65,000 people. As the researchers report online in EBioMedicine today, 41% of respondents in France disagreed with the assertion that vaccines are safe. On average, just 12% of respondents in other nations disagreed with this statement.
I didnt expect France to be as negative as it was, says Larson, who runs The Vaccine Confidence Project, a nonprofit that monitors public concerns about immunization. At the other end of the scale, only 0.2% of the respondents in Bangladesh had similar safety misgivings.
Larson notes that France recently has experienced anxiety about suspected but unproven links between the hepatitis B vaccine and multiple sclerosis and, separately, the human papillomavirus vaccine and side effects like fatigue in girls. France similarly had strong reservations about a flu vaccine quickly made to combat the pandemic of H1N1 in 2009. There was a furor that the government bought so much of that vaccine and a worry that it was made too quickly and couldnt be safe, Larson says.
Read more at...http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/france-most-skeptical-country-about-vaccine-safety?utm_source=sciencemagazine&utm_medium=facebook-text&utm_campaign=francine-7233
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I'm a little surprised by this.
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progressoid
Sep 2016
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Wilms
(26,795 posts)1. We should start calling them names. n/t
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)2. Go right ahead.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)3. It would be interesting to see some research on the underlying causes of these beliefs.