A History of Vaccines
& Anti-Vaxxers
As each new vaccine was launched there were campaigns about their safety and efficacy. Side-effects wrongly ascribed to whooping cough and measles vaccines affected their uptake. The modern antivaxxer campaign of fake news about the safety of the new Covid-19 vaccines was conducted in the echo chamber that is the Internet.
Lessons can be learned from history to mitigate vaccine hesitancy and mistrust, and to ensure all ethnic groups and sections of society receive the healthcare they deserve.
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Author
& Public Speaker
Anthony C Cartwright is the author of three books on the history of medicine – The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014, A History of the Medicines We Take, and the latest – A History of Vaccines and Anti-Vaxxers. Myth vs Reality.
His writing draws on his long experience working in R&D in the pharmaceutical industry, for the UK Medicines Agency as a senior drug regulator, and then running his own global regulatory consultancy. He has also co-written and co-edited three major texts on drug regulation, contributed chapters in other books and written many research articles and reviews.
By Anthony C. Cartwright
