REMEMBER how we were going to eliminate all sorts of nasty diseases by 2000?
Well, on the very eve of that year, in a prosperous European city, my
five-year-old daughter got one of them: measles. There has been an effective
vaccine for measles for about 40 years. And she’d been vaccinated.
It was a mild case and such partial vaccine failure is apparently not unheard
of. Even so, while most of today’s children will be answering the question
“Where were you on the eve of the millennium?” for the rest of their lives in
all sorts of interesting ways, mine…
