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Unfortunately, Anti-Vaxxers have discovered that disinformation gives them a sense of authority on knowledge (and they know people don't tend to listen to those who have no idea what they're talking about generally), so, they'll do everything they can to argue against this
Luckily malaria isn’t spreading where all the anti-vaxxers are. Argue all they want, it’ll save so many lives.
Thankfully this has been true up till now!
From what I read, malaria isn’t spread human-to-human, so it matters more directly whether you yourself have been vaccinated. Herd immunity isn’t much of a factor. If malaria started spreading near you, get vaccinated against it. Those who don’t would die.
Yes, a malaria vaccine would be just to protect yourself from getting malaria.
Perhaps anti-vaxx missionaries can do for malaria what christian missionaries do for HIV?
I can totally imagine them setting up camps, teaching people to just "believe in their immune system", discouraging proven medicine in the process.
I hope so
By the time 2040 rolls around we're gonna need some good news like this!
wont be much life left on Earth by then I reckon
Let's just hope no one has to wear a piece of cloth for it to work, or even get the vaccine.
We thought we had eradicated polio, but the anti-vaxxers had other plans.
Unfortunately, the US ruined the faith many countries have in vaccination missions because we just had to kill a renal patient, that we trained and funded, who "went off the reservation."