In 1977 , measles was spreading across the U.S. in eruption of epidemic proportion . Less than 70 % of children had been immunized due , in part , to a public backlash against swine flu vaccinations , which were rumored to be deadly . luckily , the CDC got assistant from two of the Carry Amelia Moore Nation ’s top celebrity .
20th Century Fox gift limited permission to the CDC to use a photo of the Star Wars droids for a poster that was distributed to res publica and local wellness section .
An article in the diary , Public Health Reports , noted :
Could C-3PO and R2 - D2change the minds of anti - vaxxers today ? Or , maybe the prodigious automaton from Pacific Rim would be more persuasive …
The Herd Mentality Of The Anti - Vaxxer Movement
[ bill poster image : U.S. National Library of Medicine ]
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