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by chimeracoder 2841 days ago
> On facebook we have anti-vaxxer and flathearter groups, mostly using sources like infowars or breitbart because we simply don't have nonsense-media equivalents in my country. At least not yet.

I'm willing to bet that's not the case, because there absolutely are equivalents to those sites in England, Germany, France, and so forth. I doubt that Denmark is somehow particularly special.

As for anti-vaxxing, that's a philosophy that has greater traction in Europe than it does in the US. Wakefield was a British doctor, and France and Italy have lower vaccination rates than most of the US, as well as a lower percentage of people who believe that the benefits of routine vaccination outweigh the risks.

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> As for anti-vaxxing, that's a philosophy that has greater traction in Europe than it does in the US. Wakefield was a British doctor, and France and Italy have lower vaccination rates than most of the US

Based on what?

Child vaccination rates (2017):

Diptheria/Tetanus/Pertusis: US 94%, Italy 94%, France 96%

Measles: France 90%,US 91%, Italy 92%

https://data.oecd.org/healthcare/child-vaccination-rates.htm