vaccinophobe

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English

Etymology

From vaccine +‎ -o- +‎ -phobe.

Noun

vaccinophobe (plural vaccinophobes)

  1. A person affected by vaccinophobia; one who fears or opposes the practice of vaccination.
    • 2011, Michael Bliss, Writing History: A Professor’s Life, Toronto: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 302:
      Scholars whose moral relativism, or fear of judging, amounted in my view to amoral intellectual solipsism, argued that instead of attributing anti-vaccination sentiment to fear, ignorance, and fatalism, I should have worked harder to understand the fundamental rationality of the vaccinophobes and their leaders.

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