With the increase in the number of children who are not vaccinated due to parental opposition, the number of epidemic outbreaks increases.
Up until fifteen years ago, very few people questioned the need for their children to be vaccinated. Then, in 1998, in the prestigious scientific journal The Lancet, an article by the British doctor Andrew Wakefield came out which presented alarming data on the possible relationship between the trivalent vaccine, which makes people immune to measles, mumps and rubella, and the increase in cases of autism. Reported in the general press around the world, the research results caused pandemonium. In London, the percentage of children vaccinated fell from 90 to 50%, and starting in 2000, the incidence of measles began to increase, causing some deaths. Meanwhile, numerous trials had begun to independently verify Wakefield's results, none of which confirmed the link between the trivalent vaccine and autism. lancet decided to withdraw the article, which was beginning to prove creaky, and the escalating evidence against Wakefield (which would have been funded by a lawyer carrying out a lawsuit on the vaccine-autism relationship) led to the doctor being disbarred from the order in 2010. But the story is far from over. For many, the British doctor was right, and the "powers that be" would have tried to shut him up so as not to damage the pharmaceutical industry. The result is that even today many parents decide not to have their children vaccinated, with very dangerous results.
A prejudice still strong
A survey of the Veneto Region, which suspended compulsory vaccination in 2008, analyzed the behavior of families for all children born after the suspension of compulsory vaccination. At 36 months, the 3.7% has rifi
