Vaccinophobia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fear of or aversion to the practice of vaccination. uncountable

    "It was only subsequently that the class of persons affected with vaccinophobia made their appearance, claiming that vaccine is the direst of misfortunes, since it presents a natural and fatal evil, one which neither the Divine nor the human law gives us the right to oppose."

Example

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"It was only subsequently that the class of persons affected with vaccinophobia made their appearance, claiming that vaccine is the direst of misfortunes, since it presents a natural and fatal evil, one which neither the Divine nor the human law gives us the right to oppose."

Etymology

From vaccine + -o- + -phobia.

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