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 Health 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…
