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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars

‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?

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The child whose town rejected vaccines

Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.

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Vaccinating a community, saving lives

Doctor Jane Harvey always goes the extra mile to care for her patients, and in recent months that’s extended to huge efforts to save lives with her coronavirus vaccination push.

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Healthy scepticism

Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.

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  • Anti-typhoid vaccination in World war I. Photograph.
  • Anti-typhoid vaccination in World war I. Photograph.
  • Anti-Cholera vaccines, 3 Sept.1892.
  • Eberth-Om vacuna antitifoparatifica curativa por via bucal con antigeno Vi : Coli-Om vacuna anticolibacilar / Estudio Om.
  • Eberth-Om vacuna antitifoparatifica curativa por via bucal con antigeno Vi : Coli-Om vacuna anticolibacilar / Estudio Om.
  • Photograph of Ferran with Emil Roux
  • A parade of wretched, smallpocked people walk away from a doctor who counts his money. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • Death as a skeletal figure wielding a scythe: representing fears concerning the Vaccination Act 1898 which removed penalties for not vaccinating against smallpox. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1898.
  • Death as a skeletal figure wielding a scythe: representing fears concerning the Vaccination Act 1898 which removed penalties for not vaccinating against smallpox. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1898.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: George Steel, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
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