Comments: the measles resurgence the science behind the trouble 
 
 
The 2015-02-09 16:29:18 
 
 
Source: guangzhou daily 

    Ming-bo li (media commentators)
 
    Originally has been eliminated in the United States for more than ten years of the recent suddenly to outbreak of measles. The current outbreak since last December, coming from California Disneyland has spread to many American states. As is known to all, measles vaccination is to prevent transmission of the most effective and most simple method, and the United States a lot of parents for a variety of reasons still refuses to give their children vaccinated, appear even campaign against vaccine. Ironically, the measles epidemic areas in the United States, is a stronghold of movements for the vaccine, California.
 
    There is no doubt that the vaccine is one of the greatest inventions in human medical history. Back, the path of vaccine, one's joy found a sure again for the conclusion to add a footnote. However, since the emergence of the vaccine, the vaccine's voice has been heard. Measles outbreaks, for example, in fact, as early as 2000 in the United States announced plans to eliminate measles, but in recent years, the united state, some people refused to measles vaccination for religious beliefs or personal reasons, there are still some parents believe that vaccines cause autism, refused to vaccination for children. So signs of measles in recent years to be back in the us.
 
    Los Angeles, California is home to Hollywood, where is one of the United States a stronghold of movements for the vaccine. Although California public colleges require that scholars must be vaccinated, Hollywood star concentrated malibu of a preschool students of three elementary schools, vaccination is only 58%, according to regulations and some private schools vaccination rates only up to 20%. Those Hollywood stars and celebrities, media, and the vaccine in the medical community people together, let us back significantly on the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, even to red alert.
 
    Surprisingly, now the United States, some rich school district immunisation rates even lower than the poor school districts in the north coast of California, San Diego, for example, some schools have 30% of students choose not to vaccination, because the parents of students received a good education, love watching "popular science" information on the Internet, from think than the medical community to learn more about the "dangers" of vaccination, so don't listen to vaccination requirements.
 
    The campaign against vaccine today, has become a huge threat to children and teenagers' life safety. The root cause is the scientific concept is not strong, to believe in pseudoscience or extremely selfish and arrogant and well-known public figures. In fact, in many countries, these people had nothing to do with science, has become a "scientific spokesperson."
 
    From the perspective of social psychology, the vaccine group psychology not only from the cognitive defects, social psychological factors may also be added to it. In the face of the centers for disease control and repeated explanation, the vaccine is still unsteady. Many of them suspected doctors, public health officials in glove with the pharmaceutical industry. If the latter support vaccine comments, conspiracy theorists often unjustly believing it to be a cover-up. The lack of effective communication between the media, academia and industry, can also cause the wave of the vaccine. In fact is not only a vaccine science face serious challenges, the entire KePuJie encounter similar difficulties. The pew research center according to the latest data, the general public and scientists in the United States of genetically modified food, edible played pesticide, human evolution, vaccines, such as nuclear power have a quite different views on the important scientific problems are.
 
    Science should be enlightening, originally the important way to overcome ignorance, but now the words of scientific workers why not play the role of enlightening? The past popular science work mode has a distinct type characteristics. To spread knowledge as the main purpose of traditional science, far cannot meet the need of the complexity of modern science. As a result, today's science popularization, the need to learn from some advanced experience in other areas, such as the ideas and methods of modern public relations, will a unidirectional science popularization activities into a kind of cultural activities. The dissemination of scientific knowledge to the public not only, more to enhance the public to understand the scientific activities.
 
    Vaccine, for example, we must recognize that the vaccine should not be a personal choice made by parents for their children, it is an important public health problem. Ignorance and selfish not only harm themselves, but also endanger the whole society.