ANOTHER vaccine, another scare. This time in the UK, where the government has announced plans to introduce from September a new five-in-one jab for infants that will protect against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and a bacterial meningitis (Hib).
Opponents say that injecting five vaccines at once might overload a child’s immune system, perhaps triggering adverse reactions or leaving them vulnerable to other infections.
But the UK Department of ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ counters that the new vaccine is safer because the polio component is inactivated instead of live, and the whooping-cough component no longer consists of whole cells, which can cause…
