anti-vaccination

adjective

an·​ti-vac·​ci·​n·​ation
ˌan-tē-ˌvak-sə-ˈnā-shən,
ˌan-ˌtī- How to pronounce anti-vaccination (audio)
: opposed to vaccination
But state health officials and vaccine proponents have argued that unvaccinated children pose a health risk to others. They point to the recent measles outbreak in Johnson County and elsewhere, a disease that has reappeared since the anti-vaccination movement has grown.Sarah Ritter
Anti-vaccination parents have slammed a new law that bans unimmunised children from kindergartens.Thomas Duff

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Earlier this month, Kennedy dismantled the all-important Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and remade it into the spearhead for his anti-vaccination campaigns. Michael A. Hiltzik, Mercury News, 28 June 2025 Kennedy himself has a long history of anti-vaccination activism. Erika Edwards, NBC news, 22 June 2025 But these statistics have not deterred a persistent anti-vaccination movement that expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jia H. Jung, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2025 Russia has long stoked the anti-vaccination movement in America to undermine our public health, so having leading vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm of America’s Health and Human Services Department is a huge Kremlin win. Elizabeth Shackelford, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anti-vaccination

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First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of anti-vaccination was in 1849

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“Anti-vaccination.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaccination. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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