Vaccine resistance movements have always been led by white, middle-class voices and promoted by structures of racial inequality.
- Doctoral Student, Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Oxford
En 1959, trois hommes armés ont fait irruption à l'Institut de microbiologie de l'Université de Montréal et ont dérobé 75 000 flacons d'un vaccin contre la polio. Avons-nous appris de cet événement ?
In 1959, three armed men broke into the University of Montréal and stole the whole supply of polio vaccine — 75,000 vials valued at $50,000. What have we learned from this event?
The history of anti-vaccination theories can help us understand how such claims capture a popular following. The same misinformation used against 19th century smallpox vaccine is still in use today.
Fear of COVID-19 has sparked some to react with violent racism towards Asian Americans and Canadians. This is not the first time fear of disease has led to outbreaks of violent anti-Asian racism.
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