Letters

- 1 August 2015

Issue 115, 2015 | I have just read your editorial and really enjoyed it. You make a lot of very good points and, as a teacher myself, I can relate to some of the experiences that you have described.

And it is not just the parents that display wilful ignorance about immunisation! A couple of decades ago, I remember that a promotion was made at my school for girls to be vaccinated against the papillomavirus. One of my teaching colleagues, who was also a practising homeopath, expressed considerable opposition to this promotion. Sigh.

It is frustrating that the anti-vaxxers often like to trumpet the fact that they have avoided the nasty infections that vaccines are supposed to protect us against. The major reason for this is, of course, that they are free-riding upon those of us who do immunise.

Thanks again for your most interesting editorial.

Regards,

Mark Fletcher