vaccinophobia

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From vaccine +‎ -o- +‎ -phobia.

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vaccinophobia (uncountable)

  1. A fear of or aversion to the practice of vaccination.
    • 1883 December, Thos. Layton, “Translations: Lacto-Variolic Inoculation”, in The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal (New Series), volume 11, New Orleans: L. Graham & Son, page 465:
      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.

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