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False Information and Mandatory Pediatric Vaccination

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Many different factors influence vaccination adherence, such as availability, distribution, and access, but also confidence, compliance, convenience, and other emotional aspects that can lead to vaccine hesitancy. Globalization, social networks, and mass media play a great role in divulgation concerning vaccines. On the Internet, there can also be found false, partial, sometimes frightful, and misleading informations, which usually have a great power of influence on people, because they strike vivid emotions. Bots, trolls, and conspiracy rumors frequently undermine belief in vaccine reliability. The risk-benefit ratio of vaccines is too positive to let false information and vaccine hesitancy prevail. Vaccines are a great tool that can prevent illnesses and protect the most fragile people. Mandatory vaccination has been a valuable strategy to enhance vaccination coverage; however full population commitment has to be mobilized in order to achieve success in vaccination.

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Abbreviations

ADEM:

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis

CVST:

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis

DIC:

Disseminated intravascular coagulation

EMA:

European Medical Agency

MMR:

Measles-mumps-rubella

no-vax:

No vaccination

SAGE:

Strategic Advisory Group of Experts

SSPE:

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

WHO:

World Health Organization

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    Giulia Spina, Sarah Barni & Elena Bozzola

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Spina, G., Barni, S., Bozzola, E. (2022). False Information and Mandatory Pediatric Vaccination. In: Faintuch, J., Faintuch, S. (eds) Integrity of Scientific Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99680-2_21

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