Vaccination: misconceptions about misconception

Thursday 7 October 2004 by Marc Girard

According to a BMJ editorial (21 Aug. 2004) [1], doubts about vaccination programmes cannot be based on more than “misconceptions”. Let’s try to demonstrate that in this field the distribution between “myth” and “reality” is not so univocal : this was published as a "rapid response" in Br Med J (21 Aug. 2004).

[1] Bedford H. Misconceptions about the new combination vaccine. BMJ 2004;329:411.