HeyJaredHealth Checks on History
History’s outbreaks, policies and turning points in public health - and the lessons they keep teaching us.
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Why the MMR scare outlived evidence (opens the original)
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This is the last post from my five-part series, Anti-Vaccine Movements Through the Centuries. It explores the Wakefield MMR-autism scandal and the broader modern anti-vaccination movement. This post won’t touch upon ways of tackling vaccine misinformation. All views are my own, independent from my occupation.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_yU8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2F
Two sides of vaccine safety (opens the original)
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This is the 4th post from my five-part series, Anti-Vaccine Movements Through the Centuries. It explores the history of the post-war Cutter Incident and the DTP vaccine scare, which provided the foundations for the modern anti-vaccination movement. All views are my own, independent from my occupation.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TUhk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2
Africa's vaccine mistrust has colonial roots (opens the original)
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This is the 3rd post from my five-part series, Anti-Vaccine Movements Through the Centuries. It explores the history of smallpox and yellow-fever vaccination campaigns in Africa (particularly French West Africa) and the context behind vaccine mistrust in the continent today. All views are my own, independent from my occupation.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v7zR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.
The vaccine revolt that nearly toppled Rio (opens the original)
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This is the 2nd post from my five-part series, Anti-Vaccine Movements Through the Centuries. It explores the causes and context behind the 1904 Vaccine Revolt in Rio de Janeiro. All views are my own, independent from my occupation.
How vaccine laws divided Victorian Britain (opens the original)
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This is the 1st post from my five-part series, Anti-Vaccine Movements Through the Centuries. It explores the earliest roots of vaccine resistance, focusing on opposition to the smallpox vaccination and laws in Victorian Britain. This history extends further back to debates surrounding variolation but fall outside the scope of this post/series. All views are my own, independent from my occupation.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!doI6!,f_au
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