Rivelino Montenegro

Answers for Anti-Vaxxers Rivelino Montenegro

Have you ever seen a child crippled because of poliomyelitis? Have you been to the funeral of a 2-year-old child who died of diphtheria or pertussis? Are you afraid of tetanus? If you answered "no" to these questions, you are most likely a beneficiary of vaccination's success - even if unknowingly! Before vaccines were available, millions died of vaccine-preventable diseases. Countless others had to live the rest of their lives with blindness, paralysis, or deafness as a consequence of diseases that today are either a vague memory or not even known to the next generation. With the approval of vaccines against COVID-19, a new wave of an old movement has returned to the news: the anti-vax movement. A group of people who spread videos and texts and demonstrate to prove that vaccines are either useless or more dangerous than viruses and bacteria. By analyzing some well-known graphics used by anti-vax proponents and digging into historical documents, Dr. Montenegro debunks one of the most famous claims from anti-vaxxers: "Vaccines don't work!" This book will help you understand how misinterpretation of scientific data and unjustified fear of vaccines aren't new and exclusive to COVID-19, but are the recycling of old fallacies. "Do vaccines work?" Read it and be amazed!