From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement
Gresham College Lectures
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Gresham College Lectures
From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement
Sep 28, 2011
Gresham College
In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet published an article by Andrew Wakefield questioning the benefits of the MMR vaccination which was being given unquestioningly to children throughout the UK.
Coming 202 years after the first vaccination by Edward Jenner, which led to the...

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