Sir, – In light of the recent vaccination controversy and outbreaks of infectious diseases, I had a conversation with a patient of mine who said she would never give her daughter the HPV vaccine.
I asked her how would she answer her daughter, who, while dying from terminal cervical cancer, asked her, “Mum why didn’t you vaccinate me when I was a teenager?”
She changed her mind rapidly.
Parents who do not vaccinate their children are a danger to their offspring and society as a whole and should be held accountable. – Yours, etc,
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BRIAN MULCAHY, MD,
Consultant Physician and
Rheumatologist,
Woodside Rheumatology
Clinic,
Shanakiel Road,
Cork.