Anti-vaccine advocates are trying to scare parents about the H1N1 shot.

Thanks to breathless news coverage of the swine flu, we’ve heard a lot about disaster preparedness: antiviral stockpiles, pandemic flu kits (just $15.95 on Amazon!), and, most significantly, vaccine priority lists. The Center for Disease Control recently announced that the first 3.4 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine will be released shortly.

Anti-immunization advocates are excited about the shot, but not because they think it will save them from the swine flu. They have taken the hysteria surrounding the H1N1 vaccine as an opportunity to spread conspiracy theories about this vaccine and vaccines in general. These anti-vaxers reject scientific evidence about the safety of the H1N1 shot, and they’re scaring already-anxious parents on message boards around the Internet.

At the heart of the anti-vaccination effort is a deep skepticism about the government and the medical establishment. If it’s “official,” it’s suspicious. If it’s “mandatory” (for public school admission, say), it’s fascism. I’m not saying the government or the American Academy of Pediatrics have never made mistakes when it comes to health policy. But I do tend to trust my son’s pediatrician and the Obama administration more than some random bloggers with no medical credentials who insist they alone know the truth.

In recent weeks, anti-vax activists have attempted to link the H1N1 flu vaccine to Guillain-Barré Syndrome (a nod to the 1976 flu vaccine debacle), autism (natch), and even cancer. Twitter is a-tweet with dubious links to tales of dead lab rats in vaccine trials, Ron Paul has issued an anti-swine-flu-vaccine video, and the most hard-core anti-vaxers are hosting swine flu parties where parents let noninfected children contract the virus naturally from infected playmates and build up resistance to the disease the old-fashioned way: by suffering through it. (The CDC does not approve.)

What’s more, the anti-vaccine camp is trying to use the H1N1 vaccination push to undermine faith in all vaccines and in public health policy more broadly. The fourth International Public Conference on Vaccination will be held on Oct. 2-4 near Washington, D.C. The conference’s tag line? “Show Us the Science and Give us a Choice.” Promotion for the event suggests parents are invited to the conference to hear why they shouldn’t vaccinate their children against swine flu or other diseases.

“Although it is a good idea for health officials to prepare for a worst case scenario and stockpile vaccines,” according to anti-vax organization the National Vaccination Information Center, “it is a bad idea to turn schools into medical clinics and basically test experimental swine flu vaccines on children first.”

With these kinds of scare tactics, is it any wonder mothers on parenting message boards are freaking out? On UrbanBaby.com, the H1N1 vaccine is proving divisive. Some can’t wait to get their kids the shots (“I think that anyone who doesn't has never experienced the real flu”). Others are sure the vaccine is dangerous. (“They can use someone else’s baby as a guinea pig.”) Even the Elmo PSAs are not reining in the hysteria (although they are providing fodder for late-night TV).

Tags: autism, flu shots, H1N1, swine flu, vaccine

Ada Calhoun has written for the New York Times, Time and New York magazine. Her first book, Instinctive Parenting, will be published by Simon Spotlight in March 2010.

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