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People experience vaccine fears for many reasons, including possible side effects or fear of the needle used for vaccine injections.
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This month, USU’s Science Unwrapped program will be looking at vaccine fears.
“As long as there have been vaccines, there has been opposition to vaccine. Wakefield stirred it up again, more recently, in the last 20 years, and it hasn t gone away. And it probably will persist,” said Thayne Sweeten, a neurobiologist and biology professor at Utah State University.
Sweeten said he knows first-hand about vaccine fears– he wasn’t vaccinated as a child due to his parents’ fears. He said this helped him approach his research into autism and immune mechanisms with an open mind.