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Letter: No worries?

Published 30 June 2001

From Jan Strojil

In your editorial about how people tend to worry about the wrong things
(2 June, p 3),
you write: “They worry too much about the dangers of vaccinations…”.

Then I turn to page 12 and I read the headline “The tiny villains lurking in
vaccines”. The text is crawling with words like “nanobacteria”, “contaminated”
and best of all “…compares nanobacteria to prions”.

I can’t see where this irrational fear of vaccines could come from. Any
ideas?

Olomouc, Czech Republic

Issue no. 2297 published 30 June 2001

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