Anti-Vaxxers Health Time Bomb

There were stories a few months ago of vaccination workers in Pakistan and Nigeria who were trying to save children from polio, being attacked amid rumours, fuelled by Islamist militants, that the vaccine was actually a western plot to sterilise Muslim children.
Where the Islamic Militants are condemning their own to suffer easily treatable infectious diseases through ignorance and misadvice, the West have their own version in the Anti-vaxxers movement.
Measles cases have hit a high in US, Italy and Australia amid the movement which advises resistance to the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) jab basing their claims on Andrew Wakefield’s discredited study linking autism to the triple injection published in 2000.
Countless studies have shown the link is a fiction, but Wakefield’s theory continues to exert an unhealthy influence despite not one single medical study since ever being able to replicate any of the claims Wakefied makes about the link.
In the UK, the NHS has urged Brits to take the medical advice that the jab is essential and warned of our own public health time bomb, with half a million British children missing their MMR dose, resulting in Measles cases quadrupling in a year.
As Measles is highly contagious and can spread through the air when someone coughs or sneezes and in severe cases leads to pneumonia, deafness and brain damage, there are now plans to ban unvaccinated children from attending schools and nurseries, a plan which is supported, somewhat ironically, by the parents of unimmunised children.
In the US, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that the return of Measles may be an early warning sign of resurgences in other vaccine-preventable diseases such as rubella, chickenpox and bacterial meningitis due to parents who seemingly have little sense of the risks they are running with their own, their children's and other people’s lives.
The conspiracy theorists on the Internet are being blamed and it is true that it is awash with some incredible nonsense but some theorists, such as those arguing that the Earth is flat or for creationism are daft but mostly harmless, but not so climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers.
The overwhelming scientific evidence is that the vaccination is a massive plus for health and is safe so why would anyone take the advice of a Youtuber or someone on Facebook with little or no medical credentials basing their beliefs on a single medical report that been debunked multiple times over regarding the safety, and in some unfortunate cases, the survival, of their children?