Key findings of the study include these:
The more likely someone is to believe in the false association between the use of the MMR vaccine and autism, the less likely that person is to use a Zika vaccine;
People who believe in the ability of science to overcome problems were more likely to intend to use a Zika vaccine;
People who believe that Zika causes the birth defect microcephaly (which is accurate) and those who believe Zika is likely to cause death (which is inaccurate) were more likely to intend to vaccinate;
People who were engaged in behaviors to protect against Zika were less likely to intend to get the vaccination — which “may be the result of their confidence that their actions pre-empt the need to be vaccinated,” the researchers said.
The researchers said the study has practical and theoretical implications. Once the Zika vaccine exists, health communicators will have to cope with “vaccine hesitancy” and anti-vaccine communications. The research also adds evidence to the need for health communicators “to address a spill-over effect from misbeliefs about one vaccine on intention to use another.”
The bogus association between the MMR vaccine and autism has been disproven in numerous studies. However, the argument is still prominent among people who oppose vaccinations. “Scientists often look at the effect of misinformed beliefs about the MMR vaccine on people’s intention to vaccinate children with the triple vaccine, but they don’t as often look at the dangerous spillover effects that these misbeliefs can have,” said Ophir,
One need only look at the claims and counter-claims of the effects of / amount of vaccine-induced injuries as a result of the HPV vaccine.
Many Internet sites claim (with quotes from MDs) that deaths are ‘high’ - yet the CDC et al claim otherwise.
The problem today is two-fold. The larger community has come to distrust the FedGov due to the politicization of many medical programs at both the State and Federal levels. The HPV vaccine is just one of many recent politicized efforts.
The second is the view by many that Big Pharma is a money machine that could care less about patient outcome, so long as they get their dough. The recent conviction of
“Pharma Bro Shkrel” is just the most recent example. The execrable performance of flu vaccines in recent decades, and the deaths from the same doesn’t help.
Right now Zikka is a small issue - and for the large and growing older population of the US, it will remain so.
the study says ...
50% of studies are BOGUS. Which half is this study??
Dr. Richard Horton
Editor-in-Chief Lancet Medical Journal
“Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue.”