• Question: Do you think vaccines should be looked at more in schools?

    Asked by charlesdarwin to Jen, Jill, Mel, Phil, Stef on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Phil Rice

      Phil Rice answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Hi, Charles. Depends what you mean by that? If you mean that more vaccination should be done at school then maybe. You have a captive audience as it were. The human papillomavirus vaccine was very successfully used recently and in 1994-95 there was a campaign to prevent a predicted epidemic of measles so all schoolchildren aged 5-16 were immunised.

    • Photo: Stefan Piatek

      Stefan Piatek answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      I agree will Phil 100%. The amazing thing about vaccines is that they are the cheapest way to stop us from getting ill, and because they prevent, they are generally a lot safer than getting ill and then trying to fix it.

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