The Spanish Association of Pediatrics and Maldita.es join forces to fight vaccine disinformation

Vaccine disinformation poses a danger to public health. Moreover, hoaxes play on fear by providing manipulated figures that do not match reality. Maldita.es has developed a commandment to prevent and stop the spread of these hoaxes, which can be downloaded from the campaign’s website.

Vaccines are effective in preventing infectious diseases. Each year, they prevent 2.5 million deaths worldwide, but the growth of disinformation leads to infectious outbreaks among unvaccinated individuals that could have been prevented. The campaign led by the AEP seeks to encourage vaccination as a health tool, appealing to individual responsibility and stopping the spread of hoaxes to preserve public health.

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