Distrust Through the Ages: The Deep Roots of the Anti-Vaccine Movement
The World Health Organization (WHO) credits vaccines with having ‘saved more human lives than any other medical intervention in history’ (1). In 2025 their director of the Department of Immunizations, Vaccines and Biologicals called vaccination one of the most powerful public health tools and cited 150 million lives saved over the past fifty years (2). In spite of this a growing number of people are hesitant to or refusing to receive recommended vaccines (3). Enough people, in fact, that...
