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Nationalism, 'self-reliance' and fear of foreign 'machinations' have added a new element to the resistance against vaccines.
This article has been withdrawn by the editors because it drew heavily on three previously published works: The History of Vaccines, a website run by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; A Brief History of Vaccines and Vaccination in India by Chandrakant Lahariya, Indian Journal of Medical Research (2014 April), and ‘Free’ Vaccines Aren’t Free Of The Foreign Hand without acknowledging and attributing them in any way.
