vaccinophobia

English

Etymology

From vaccine +‎ -o- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

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.

Related terms

• vaccinophobe
• vaccinophobic

 

Translations

fear of or aversion to the practice vaccination

• Greek: εμβολιοφοβία f (emvoliofovía)

See also

• anti-vaxxer
• trypanophobia