Mum, medic, academic CBE, MD, PhD, MRCOG. Pro Vice Chancellor, Health & Life Sciences @LivUni Lead Investigator @ChildrenGrowing
Aug 21, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I’m followed by a lot of mums and dads and soon to be mums and dads so on the vaccine issue I will say this and leave it here: as a young medical student I witnessed a young child die of measles meningitis. A horrific death that has stayed with me. (1)
The consultant tried to comfort the shattered team by sharing his certain belief that- and I quote- ‘measles will soon be like smallpox- there is an effective & safe vaccine & soon no child will ever die like this’ This was the early 1990’s.
And then Andrew Wakefield happened (2)