The Mixing of Anti-Vaccine Activism and Politics Is Nothing New
An opinion piece from one hundred years ago might as well have been written today.
5 min readApr 7, 2022
Between 1921 and 1925, over 200,000 children in the United States became ill with diphtheria. Diphtheria is a bacterial infection caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Today, diphtheria is easily treated with…