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Louis Pasteur is probably turning in his grave. Pasteur was the Frenchman who did breakthrough work in the 1800s in terms of vaccinating against deadly contagious diseases. It has become the law in his country of birth for parents to have their children inoculated. It is “unacceptable” that children are “still dying from measles” in the birth country of the earliest pioneers of vaccinations, said prime minister Édouard Philippe at the time. What brought on this comment, you might wonder?

A new French revolution is brewing, fuelled by the so-called “anti-vaxxers”. Not just in France though… Across the developed world, vaccination rates are dropping because of suspicions and insinuations about vaccines. And governments are responding with legislation and official vaccination programmes. Like in Italy, where

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