Paul Goble
Staunton, June 14 – Russia’s consumer protection agency, Rospotrebnadzor, says that the number of cases of measles, whooping cough and rubella are skyrocketing in Russia; and medical experts in that country say that this is the result of the impact of anti-vaxxer groups who have convinced many parents not to immunize their children.
The number of cases of measles, for example, almost doubled between 2023 and 2024, the Russian government agency says; and medical experts say that most of the reason for that increase is a radical decline in the share of Russian children getting vaccinated (kommersant.ru/doc/7794350 and fedpress.ru/news/77/society/3384008).
Many parents have been convinced by anti-vaxxer propaganda that shots are more likely to cause harm than do good and so are not having their children vaccinated. As a result, the collective immunity of the population has fallen because to be effective 95 percent or more of a population must be inoculated.
Unless the schools, media and doctors can convince parents to have their children immunized as they themselves were earlier, the future is bleak: these diseases which should have been wiped out by the shots are likely to become at least or even more widespread than they were in the past, experts say.
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