According to the World Health Organization (WHO), reluctance or refusal to vaccinate is now one of the top ten major threats to global health. Even people in high-income countries, with good healthcare systems, are dying from easily preventable diseases. „It’s a tragedy for Europe that a child or an adult has died because of a preventable disease,“ says Patrick O’Connor, a team lead in WHO Europe’s Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization program. „We owe it to them to protect them.“
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