PLOS Biology<p>Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific success stories of our time. They have saved more than 154 million lives in the last 50 years — more than 1 life every 10 seconds.</p><p>Recent moves to strip funding from vaccine-related research are shortsighted and self-harming. As is the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism.</p><p>The best vaccine isn’t useful if it is not distributed, or not socially accepted. Vaccine equity and hesitancy remain great challenges. Globalizing antivaccine activism could become our greatest hurdle.</p><p>It is not time to defund, but rather invest in vaccines.</p><p>Read our latest editorial in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PLOSBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLOSBiology</span></a>: Vaccines work… and do not cause autism </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/immunization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immunization</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WorldImmunizationWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldImmunizationWeek</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/outbreak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>outbreak</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/vaccinehesitancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccinehesitancy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.plos.org/plosbiology/</span><span class="invisible">article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143</span></a></p>