New five-in-one jab announced
Here we go again... the government has announced a new five-in-one jab to replace the current four-in-one diphtheria, tetanus, Hib and whooping cough vaccination. Now polio will be given via this route, rather than via an oral route.
This has launched a typical outcry of "It's MMR all over again" from the Daily Mail. Meanwhile, it's sister paper the Evening Standard discusses the fears whipped up earlier in the day by the Mail... it's all rather sordid, really.
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I am always astonished, whenever one of these vaccine scare stories pops up, at how many of the general public are experts in immunology.
Can't help thinking that if the diseases which vaccination has largely eradicated in recent years (diphtheria, tetanus et al) were a bit more common, so that the general public could see the hideous results of being infected with them, there'd be less squeamishness over the concept of vaccination. A probably non-existent risk of autism? Or a much higher risk of sterility (mumps), brain damage and blindness (measles), death (tetanus, diphtheria, measles again, chicken pox, hib meningitis, I could go on....)? Gosh, that's a tricky question.
Not to mention the risk to herd immunity. Adults may end up getting some of these so-called childhood diseases, as there will be kids wandering round caryring them to the detriment of adults whose own immunity from past vaccinations has waned. I wonder if I could get the new 5-in-1 as a 30-year-old.....
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