The Daily Mail hates vaccines. I can’t quite work out why, but any anti-vaccine nonsense they can pick up anywhere gets an instant story. Which is intriguing as the Irish Daily Mail is campaigning for the Irish government to fund the HPV vaccine.

A GP receptionist contracted Myasthenia Gravis six weeks after having the H1N1 vaccine and now is quite debilitated by it. So it must be the vaccine that’s the cause and isn’t it awful how she was advised to get it and is now really disabled. (I’m paraphrasing only very slightly).

Increasingly, I am discovering that the media cannot do nuance. Everything has to be black and white. Almost nothing in life is that straight forward and certainly nothing in medicine. The issue of a potential flu pandemic poses a problem for the media. The question the media has been wrestling with since H1N1 became pandemic is this: Is swine flu like any other flu or potentially the end of the world as we know it? The problem for the media is that the only honest answer to that is “both.”

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