PUBLIC SCEPTICISM
Déjà vu, much? The World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and the Irish government all separately in the past week warned against a resurgence of measles in their respective bailiwicks.
Measles is an extremely contagious airborne disease that is particularly dangerous to children, immunocompromised adults and pregnant women. Like that other ancient scourge polio, it’s easily contained through preventative vaccination, and before the Covid pandemic, both diseases had been virtually eradicated in the developed world.
All three of these venerable institutions lamented the decline in the number of parents immunising their children. None of them identified
