In our country, too, they are thinking about how to rein in the opponents of vaccination. But we have not yet understood how to do this.
Vaccination in Russia is purely voluntary. If you think that a child does not need vaccinations, it is your own business. But it’s one thing to have your own opinion, and another to call everyone else to it.
“Anti-vaccination” propaganda in our country has reached unprecedented proportions. As a result, there is a massive refusal to vaccinate and regular outbreaks of measles, including in maternity hospitals.
The Ministry of Health says that those who publicly declare that vaccinations are harmful and unnecessary should be punished. Now the department is preparing bills that prohibit such statements and introduce administrative responsibility for this.
This initiative is also supported by Rospotrebnadzor.
“In Russia, as in the rest of the world, there is an intensification of the anti-vaccination lobby,” the ministry said in an official statement. “Information about the dangers of vaccinations” … without being objective, undermines citizens’ confidence in vaccination. “
How to restore the undermined “authority” of vaccinations is now being decided at different levels, up to the State Duma. So, a compulsory vaccination passport for children may soon appear in Russia.
“For example, it can record the reasons why parents refuse to vaccinate their children, as well as indications for a special vaccination regime,” said State Duma deputy Leonid Ogul.
Another initiative that officials are now actively promoting is the creation of an online vaccination portal. In the meantime, the Ministry of Health said: in the near future, the list of vaccinations included in the national calendar will increase. Children will be vaccinated against rotavirus and human papillomavirus infections, chickenpox without fail.
There was information in the media and that the Ministry of Education proposes to completely limit the access of unvaccinated children to schools and clinics. But this turned out to be an exaggeration: such measures already exist, and they work only during epidemics. Well, do you send a child who does not have a measles vaccine to a class where there is a hundred percent carrier, or even more than one?
Meanwhile, for the first time, the World Health Organization has included vaccine refusal in the list of the top ten threats to humanity. Along with air pollution, influenza pandemic and antibiotic resistance. Imagine, since the beginning of the century, the number of unvaccinated children under the age of three has increased four (!) Times.
It is not surprising that all over the world those who are against vaccinations are being fought with their own weapons. For example, in USA the conversation with the parents is short: no vaccinations, no school. Just last week, a video circulated on the Internet: policemen literally with weapons rushed into the house where a family lives with a sick two-year-old child. The boy without vaccinations was suspected of meningitis and was urgently taken to the hospital. And then … they were transferred to a foster family.
True, in the legislation of almost every state there is a clause: parents can refuse to vaccinate a child for religious reasons.
А in AustraliaFor example, if children do not have vaccinations, then there is no social return for kindergarten. This is half of what parents pay, a very significant social benefit. Or, say, a dentist. Children rely on his services for 2 thousand dollars a year. But only if you have all the vaccinations. At least one will be missed, that’s all, the insurance expires.
On March 12, the Italian compulsory vaccination law came into force. To combat anti-vaccination agents, it was decided not to let students into schools and kindergartens until parents show a certificate. Unvaccinated children under six years of age may be sent home. Older children will not be suspended from school, but for an unvaccinated child, parents can be fined up to 500 euros. The reason is another outbreak of measles. The disease is raging all over the world.