RUSSIALINK: “Russia Has a Vaccination Problem” – Moscow Times

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(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – EVAN GERSHKOVICH – September 28, 2018 – themoscowtimes.com/articles/russia-has-a-vaccine-problem-63017) The problems began only after Anastasia Dvoretskaya’s son turned one. Before, she says, he had been a healthy child. Then, during his second year, he came down with a nagging cough, then recurring throat infections, and then the flu. Up until that point, Dvoretskaya, 30, had vaccinated […]

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NEWSLINK: “Russia trolls ‘spreading vaccination misinformation’ to create discord” – BBC

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“Troll accounts that had attempted to influence the US election had also been tweeting about vaccines, a study says. Many posted both pro- and anti-vaccination messages to create “false equivalency”, the study found. …”

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