Blog: Views from the village
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Why I am in favour of the jab
Published on 04 June 2013
By Larissa Tuohy, Communications Manager, ChildFund Australia
In 1970, as a young infant about to travel to the United States, I was given the smallpox vaccine. While Australia had been largely free of this disease since the early 1900s, there still remained a risk, although minor, of contracting the infection in America. It would not be until 1980 that the World Health Organisation would officially declare that smallpox had been eradicated worldwide...
