The Hideouts of the Vaccination Process
The Hideouts of the Vaccination Process

Summary/Abstract: Vaccines are biological products prepared according to specific techniques meant to improve the body's immunity against particular, given conditions. According to World Health Organization (2017), along the time millions of children from 188 countries, immunized by different vaccines (diftero-tetano-pertussis acelular – DtaP, measles and polio) got their lives back. In Romania, the anti-diphtheria vaccine introduced in 1960 allowed people's immunization and made the disease completely disappear in 1990. No case of diphtheria has been confirmed anymore so far. Since 2016, the immunization percentage has unfortunately, fallen below 90% (CNSCBT, 2017) because of parents' refusal to administrate vaccines to their children and the failure in choosing and subscribing on a general practitioner’s list. Nevertheless, today’s society faces a dramatic situation caused by: a) lack and erroneous information of parents expressing their opposition to vaccination and b) particular manipulation of organizations against vaccines. The results of a field research are presented below together with socio-economic consequences.The purpose of this study is to quantify the people’s knowledge about the immunization mechanism and their opinion linked to the advantages and the disadvantages of accepting vaccination. The paper outlines the low interest of the general population in vaccination given the fake news circulating through social media and the lack of updated information about the immunization actions' benefit.

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