Anti-Vax America: Anti-Vax Genealogy

For many years, the threat of measles, a deadly disease that spreads more rapidly than COVID and regularly took thousands of lives a year, had been effectively eradicated in the United States due to the widespread acceptance of vaccination. The death of a child from measles in West Texas was the first in over a decade and it came as a shock to the American medical establishment that is now grappling with a disturbing reality: the chief public health bureaucrat is a bonafide anti-vaxxer. This episode will explore the genealogy of anti-vaccination beliefs in the United States and how they spread into mainstream politics. Sources: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1200696/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8802588/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1123944/ https://time.com/7205900/anti-vaccination-movement-history/ https://historyofvaccines.org/getting-vaccinated/vaccine-faq/vaccination-exemptions https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/timeline-of-vaccination-mandates https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68106-1_2 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rfk-jr-plandemic-funding-1235173801/ https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-0…