Don’t Let Vaccine Critics Disrupt Supply to World’s Poor

One of the greatest medical achievements of our time is at imminent risk of being undermined by bad science.

Thanks to a herculean effort by health advocates, 78 percent of children in low-income countries receive the basic set of childhood vaccines, covering diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenzae. This campaign will be disrupted, and lives lost, if immunization critics win their latest battle for an international ban on a vaccine component that has proved to be safe time and time again.