The reasons for the anti-vaccine movements mistrusting vaccines are diverse, but in the United States and Europe the belief that the risks of vaccines outweigh their benefits is especially prevalent. That vaccines are an artificial intervention into natural processes and that it is less dangerous to let nature run its course. If you understand the mechanisms of the immune system and how immunity is created, this idea quickly loses all power because vaccines and diseases both do the same thing: They create Memory Cells by triggering an immune reaction. But while pathogens do this by attacking
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