Name: How to Fight Fake News on Vaccines | NYT Opinion
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But there's another type of misinformation that's

I'm talking about medical misinformation.

in at least one medical conspiracy theory.

When people are diagnosed, with cancer and they go online,

they're often hit with absolute falsehoods.

And they either delay their conventional treatment

And when a vaccination confidence crisis came

Let me tell you about the human papilloma virus or H.P.V.

Every year about 270,000 women die of cervical cancer

we now have a vaccine that prevents against it.

It's difficult to overstate how effective this vaccine

H.P.V. infection in young girls has dropped about 88 percent.

But then things changed. In Japan in 2013,

led to a panic, which saw vaccination rates for H.P.V.

dropped from 70 percent to less than 1 percent within a year or two.

came to Denmark. In the U.S.A., H.P.V. vaccination

rates in adolescence remain critically low,

hovering at around 16 percent. “The uptake rate for the H.P.V.

In 2015, panic about the H.P.V. vaccine came to Ireland.

the side effects of Gardasil go well beyond a few months.”

such dangerous falsehoods about a vaccine that

“We only ever wanted what was best for our girls.”

Within a year or so, Irish vaccination rates

had gone from highs of 87 percent to about 50 percent.

the truth is that we emote first and we reason later.

“And I watched my baby go boom and hit the ground.”

has had an adverse effect to this vaccination.

“I believe with all my heart that the Gardasil vaccination

did this to her.” And it'll be delivered

in a very frightening way that captures your attention.

“I was such an intelligent girl and now I've just

It doesn't matter that the stories lack any veracity.

What matters is they scare us and in scaring us

we afford them more weight than they deserve.

This explains why lies about the H.P.V. vaccine

were able to do so much damage in so many countries.

she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, and

by the time she was 25, that was metastatic noncurable.

Laura was alarmed that people weren't getting

from being in the situation that she found herself

in. Her campaigning started with a series

of advertisements where she talked to parents directly

I would hope parents would get their daughters vaccinated.

I am the reality of an unvaccinated girl.

“So it just shows you how fast and aggressive my cancer is.

It's no good just throwing facts of people

until you can show them why those facts matter.

thanks in large part to her campaigning, rates

climbed back up over 70 percent, and are continuing to climb.

It shows that you can reverse some of this damage.

terminal, I wanted to use my voice for good,

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