vaccinophobia
English
Etymology
From vaccine + -o- + -phobia.
Noun
vaccinophobia (uncountable)
- 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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Related terms
- vaccinophobe
- vaccinophobic
Translations
fear of or aversion to the practice vaccination
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See also
- anti-vaxxer
- trypanophobia