The movement against vaccinating children has , for the most part , been fire by pretty much anyone who matters as a bunch of fringe whackadoodles . While there is no credible evidence that vaccinum cause autism , as anti - vaccine activist say there is , there ’s slew of evidence that vaccines prevent epidemics of frightful , deadly diseases .
But in Donald Trump , the anti - vaccine cause may find a potent novel friend . STAT News reportsthat over the summertime , Andrew Wakefield , the discredited researcher who launched the anti - vaxxer movement , run across with Trump . And Trump , he enounce , was sympathetic to his cause .
“ For the first time in a long time , ” Wakefield told STAT , “ I sense very incontrovertible about this , because Donald Trump is not beholden to the pharmaceutical industry . ”
Wakefield plunge the anti - vaccine move two tenner ago , when he published a subject intimate that a popular vaccine against morbilli , mumps and rubella could cause autism . Wakefield lost his aesculapian license and the study was wide debunked and eventually pull back , but he nonetheless built up a following ( among them , most famously , theactress Jenny McCarthy ) .
As Trump gears up to move into the White House , Wakefield and his ill-conceived follower are promising that a Trump presidency will advance their cause .
“ I detect him to be extremely concerned , genuinely concerned , and open - tending on this emergence , so that was enormously fresh , ” Wakefield told STAT .
Given the overpowering evidence that vaccinum are secure and effectual , there is belike not much Trump could do to affect the accessibility of vaccines at a policy level . But the potentiality of having an anti - vaxxer in the Oval Office is still terrifying . Despite its complete lack of scientific foundation , in late years , the anti - vaccine movement has disseminate . And as it has , so too have the disease vaccines are presuppose to prevent . The spring of 2015 saw thefirst demise from measlesin the United States in 12 years . That same year , vaccine refusal helped spur ameasles outbreak at Disneyland .
vaccine avert between 2 and 3 million deaths annually , fit in tothe World Health Organization . But keeping diseases like infantile paralysis , variola major or morbilli at bay take that the Brobdingnagian bulk of children are immunized . If Trump elevate a program that casts doubtfulness on vaccines , it could literally mean that people give way .
[ STAT News ]
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