Critical Focus | Vaccines: Sickness or Salvation?
THE MICROSCOPE
2019, Volume 67:3, pp. 111–121
DOI
https://doi.org/10.59082/CEIT3768
AUTHOR
Brian J. Ford
EXCERPT
Humanity will be wiped out with a virus epidemic, we are told. That’s the big picture. The small, personal alternative is when you go to the doctor with an unidentifiable illness: “Ah, it’s a virus,” they say. “There’s a lot of it about.” Yes, viruses are everywhere. Some (like Ebola) are confined to specific regions of the globe; others (like hepatitis) are transmitted only in unusual circumstances; a few (like HIV) are not highly infectious, and can now be treated — but those that threaten everybody are widespread around the world, cannot be cured, and are easily spread. New examples, from MERS to SARS, pop up like moles at a funfair.
