anti-vaccine

See also: antivaccine

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Etymology

From anti- + vaccine.

Adjective

anti-vaccine (not comparable)

  1. Opposing vaccines and vaccination.
    Synonyms: anti-vaccination, anti-vaxxing, (informal) anti-vax
    Antonym: pro-vaccine
    • 2009 January 13, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade”, in New York Times:
      A new book defending vaccines, written by a doctor infuriated at the claim that they cause autism, is galvanizing a backlash against the antivaccine movement in the United States.
    • 2019 December 10, Tess Lanzarotta, “How to beat anti-vaxxers at their own game”, in The Washington Post:
      This tactic should not be surprising given that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. served as a producer on “Vaxxed II.” A recent study found Kennedy’s anti-vaccination organization, the World Mercury Project, was one of two groups responsible for 54 percent of anti-vaccine advertisements on Facebook.
    • 2020 May 13, Kevin Roose, “Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War”, in The New York Times:
      The study, which mapped the vaccine conversation on Facebook during the 2019 measles outbreak, found that there were nearly three times as many active anti-vaccination communities as pro-vaccination communities. In addition, they found that while pro-vaccine pages tended to have more followers, anti-vaccine pages were faster-growing.
    • 2020 September 8, Michael Hiltzik, “Column: Trump attacks Biden and Harris as anti-vaccine, but he’s the one with the anti-vaxx record”, in Los Angeles Times:
      Donald Trump’s habit of projecting his own failings onto his adversaries reached a new level of absurdity on Labor Day, when he attacked the Democratic ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for “reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric” and accused them of a position that “undermines science.”

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