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Anti-vaccine                                                                                                        The  anti-vaccine  movement  is  having  a

                                                                                                                            great impact today, which leads thousands



        movement                                                                                                            of  people  to  join  that  movement  believing


                                                                                                                            that  vaccination  is  harmful  to  them  and



        The truth about it                                                                                                  their  children,  defending  that  they  have



                                                                                                                            chemicals,  cause  autism,  are  population




      By: Kerly Córodova                                                                                                    control  methods,  are  one  way  animal

      Ivanna Salazar                                                                                                        cruelty, among others ... however, they have


      Damaris Reyes                                                                                                         not thought about the risks that this entails

      Kemely Pozo

                                                                                                                            for  their  health,  that  of  their  environment




      What is the anti-vaccine                                                                                              and the threat that it represents for public


                     movement?                                                                                              health





 Anti-vaccination movements are

 associations  of  people  who                                                                                              How vaccines work?

 oppose vaccination for different


 reasons.  These  groups  use  the                                                                                          Vaccines  are  responsible
                                                                                                                            for  protecting  to  prevent
 Internet               as         a        means               of                                                          disease or that it is mild, it

 disseminating their ideas.                                                                                                 is  achieved  by  injecting


                                                                                                                            the  dead  or  weakened

                                                                                                                            organism  so  the  body  is

                                                                Their arguments                                             avaible              to          generates

                                                                                                                            defenses                 against              the


                                                                                                                            microorganism
                                                                Anti-vaccines                          defends

                                                                rguments  in  which  it  is

                                                                stated that vaccines are the

                                                                cause of diseases and have                                                                                           Importance of

                                                                toxic  elements  in  their                                                                                           vaccination

                                                                composition.



                                                                                                                                                                                     Vaccines                         are                a

   But...                                                                                                                                                                            mechanism                        for           the
                                                                                                                                                                                     control                    of             many

                                                                                                                                                                                     diseases

   There  are  a  large  number  of                                                                                                                                                  infectious  that  in  the


   rigorous scientific studies that have                                                                                                                                             past  were  common  like
                                                                                                                                                                                     polio  or  rubella.  they

   shown that vaccines are not harmful                                                                                                                                               seek to resist the germs


   to people's health.                                                                                                                                                               that


   According to figures from the World                                                                                                                                               They cause disease, and
                                                                                                                                                                                     can  even  cause  death,
   Health                Organization,                       vaccines                                                                                                                several viruses still exist


   prevent  two  to  three  million  deaths                                                                                                                                          and  can  be  transmitted

   a  year  by  providing  protection                                                                                                                                                to  those  who  are  not


   against diseases                                                                                                                                                                  protected.



                                                                                                                                 Risks for the society  with people


                                                                  What is a vaccine ?
                                                                                                                                                      without vaccination

                                                       Vaccines                        are                those           Such  diseases  could  represent  a


                                                       preparations  produced  with                                       risk to public health, with the risk of


                                                       toxoids,                                    bacteria,              generating an epidemic or a drop in

                                                       attenuated  viruses,  killed  or                                   person  without  the  vaccine,  which


                                                       made                       by                  genetic             would entail high expenses for the

                                                       engineering                        and              other          government  and  an  economic


                                                       technologies                          that               are impact  on  each  of  the  infected

                                                       administered  to  people  to people, imagining not reaching one


                                                       generate  active  and  lasting                                     quarantine where all labor activities


                                                       immunity against a disease.                                        would  be  stopped  generating  a

                                                                                                                          fatal economic loss
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