Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.
The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them. I know, as I write about the dangers of mass immunisation, that it is a concept that you may find difficult to accept. Immunizations have been so artfully and aggressively marketed that most parents believe them to be the "miracle" that has eliminated many once-feared diseases. Consequently, for anyone to oppose them borders on the foolhardy. For a paediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of paediatric practice is equivalent to a priest's denying the infallibility of the pope.

Kris Gaublomme, MD
June, 1998
The United Nations distributes a booklet called The CVI Strategic Plan, Managing Opportunity and Chance. A Vision of Vaccination for the 21st Century. Free copies are available from CVI Secretariat, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
It is a most interesting piece of lecture for those who want to understand how vaccination policy works. We will therefore have a closer look at the document.