For this Unit, you will explore the history and current state vaccine hesitancy and disease outbreak. Vaccine refusal and hesitancy are outlined as a major threat in disease outbreak. While vaccine hesitancy has been documented for much of human history, the rise in social networking has proliferated vaccine refusal/hesitancy.
Please choose 2 articles posted below to read and choose 1 film to review.
Then, submit a 1 page review of what you have learned and address the questions below:
1) What is the history of vaccine hesitancy? Is it increasing, why?
2) What risk does vaccine hesitancy/refusal play in disease outbreak?
3) Should public schools and health care facilities/procedures require vaccination? Who should be held responsible if school or daycare children get seriously ill or die from vaccine preventable diseases?
Review should be 1/2 summary and 1/2 analysis. Please cite your sources with both in text citations and APA reference list. Post on the Unit 4 DB and to the link provided.
Aricle 1
https://www.oah.org/tah/issues/2015/august/vaccination-resistance/
Article 2
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/major-threat-pandemic-vaccine-hesitancy-rcna25460
Film
https://www.pbs.org/video/vaccination-from-the-misinformation-virus-a6mhdw/