Measles was eradicated in America in 2000, but outbreaks are again appearing
of handsome homes north of Chicago, is prime territory for anti-vaxxers. The wealthy and well-educated drop into the Blind Faith Café for vegan meals. Nearby a paediatrician, Toni Bark, offers alternative medicine. She promotes homeopathy and the merits of ice-cold dips in Lake Michigan. She also rails against vaccines.
Anti-vaxxers are “more vociferous than ever,” says Saad Omer of Emory University in Atlanta. He sees a movement of two parts. More numerous are the vaccine-hesitant, including parents who are insufficiently educated, anxious about child health, perhaps worried by autism and swayed by a deluge of misleading claims online. Around 13% of Americans said in 2016 that they did not fully trust vaccines as safe. A smaller core of activists plus minor celebrities, such as Robert F.
Robert Krakow, a lawyer in New York and prominent anti-vaxxer, agrees that the movement is diverse: “It cuts across all political ideologies, all demographics, you can’t pin it down.” But all share a deep mistrust of public-health bodies. Nor is it associated with one party. Although President Donald Trump and some other Republican politicians have been sympathetic, others, like Mr Kennedy, lean left.
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