TA1LGUNN3R wrote:I have a hard time believing they beat out Oregon or Washington in that regard, but then I've never been to France, as the saying goes.
The survey of people aged 15 and older was devised by Wellcome, a British medical charity, and conducted by Gallup World Poll between April and December 2018.
It found that people living in high-income countries have the lowest confidence in vaccines, a result that ties in to the rise of the anti-vaccination movement, in which people refuse to believe in the benefits of vaccinations or claim that the treatment is dangerous.
'People are less used to living with threats'
An estimated 169 million children missed out on the vital first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017, according to a UN report issued in April.
In the US alone, the number of cases of the disease this year has exceeded a thousand, according to the latest official figures.
"I think we expected that general trend, because where we have seen that skepticism and concern about vaccines, that tends to be in more developed countries," Imran Khan, Wellcome's head of public engagement, who led the study, told AFP.
"But I think the extent of the difference is surprising and some of those numbers were really startling."
Globally, 79 percent of people agreed that vaccines are safe and 84 percent said they were effective.
On the other end of the spectrum from France, Bangladesh and Rwanda had the highest levels of confidence in vaccines, with almost 100 percent in both countries agreeing they were safe, effective and important for children to have.
basically..... the survey is about trust in vaccines; while for some odd reason only 55% of french trust vaccines according to that survey, they are madatory for every french child, and mandatory when you go to certain countries.
Rich countries can obviously afford to have more doubts about vaccines because we don't have hepatitis and all that crap unlike benglasdesh or rwanda. That survey is crap, also show me the survey and how the question was formulated. "according to a survey" is not good enough for me. People can write crap biaised articles about all sorts of dumb biaised surveys.
I have a "friend" that is all about illuminati, no moon landing, creationism, flat earth, 9/11conspiracy and all the crap you want, and even his kid gets vaccinated