Summary
Brazil is recognized worldwide for its National Immunization Program (PNI), which offers all vaccines recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the public health network. With a major public health effort and years of campaigns to massify the importance of vaccination, the country became free of diseases such as urban yellow fever, smallpox, poliomyelitis, rubella and measles.
But the circulation of fake news has contributed to jeopardize the success of this historical record and brought back some of these diseases that many thought were a thing of the past. In today’s information age, truth and lies fight for...