Global Social Problem of the Week: PUBLIC RESISTANCE TO IMMUNIZATION
Channel: Salvatore Babones
Date: 2016-05-24

Nothing better illustrates the fact that all people share in a single, biological society than the epidemiology of immunization.

Obviously, we all share each other's germs, which are spread through breathing, touching, kissing, and myriad other ways.

Thus one person's immunization is another person's immunization: when I immunize me, I immunize you.

But in many countries today public resistance to immunization puts the benefits of this "herd immunity" at risk.