Laura Spinney

Tag: vaccination

  • Worried about Australian flu?

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    WHAT is it with us and the blame game? This year, Australia is taking the rap for sending us flu, a disease that has been endemic in humans for at least 10,000 years, and that grips much of the globe every flu season (the clue’s in the name)… This comment piece first appeared in The Guardian…

  • Vaccine wars

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    A new law takes force in France on 1 January to up the number of mandatory childhood vaccines to 11 from three. It has provoked a polemic, but the law is sound. If there is a problem here, it is the neglect by officials of the main drivers of vaccine hesitancy… This article first appeared…