Anti-vaxxers flood Senate hearing to investigate the ongoing viral epidemic — of fear by alexnazaryan
WASHINGTON — Anti-vaccination activists, some with their children, packed the Dirksen Senate Office Building Tuesday morning for a hearing that they hoped would vindicate, or at least recognize as legitimate, their fear that protecting their families from measles runs the risk of something worse, including autism and other disorders.
The hearing comes at a time when mistrust of vaccines has been inflamed by suspicion of government and of science and has spread — virally, you could say — by social media. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 11 states are currently experiencing measles outbreaks. Measles was declared eradicated in the United States in 2000, but herd immunity — a community’s collective resistance to disease — has been eroding as parents have opted out of vaccinating their children.
Dr. Jonathan A. McCullers, chair of pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, criticized states that allow parents to opt out of immunization programs on the basis of “religious and philosophical objections.”
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