mo4ch:>Indian schools prevent child vaccinations because of anti-vaccine rumors spreading on social media | Mo4ch News
The UN vaccination campaign in India has been met with fierce resistance as parents and even some schools opposed the idea of vaccinating children. The health officials believe rumors circulating on social media are to blame.Thousands of children in India have missed out on the necessary immunization, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) complained. In the Indian capital of New Delhi, the UN-backed campaign to vaccinate students as schools was met with opposition by parents, who were scared of potential adverse effects of inoculation.Dozens of schools in the western Indian city of Mumbai refused to allow health officials to carry out vaccinations against measles and rubella over the recent months, according to the Wall Street Journal. Such a reaction could seem surprising in the light of the fact that it is India where about one third of all deaths from measles in the world were registered in early 2010s, according to the World Health Organization.“Every one in three children, …