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"The old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox," wrote Lady Mary, "and asks what vein you please to have opened." Just think of the leap of faith involved in handing over your child to be jabbed in an 18th-century Turkish backstreet clinic. In 1718, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife to the British ambassador at the court of the Ottoman empire, submitted her six-year-old son to the process and instantly turned inoculation into a fashion statement.
Long before Edward Jenner and his crusade against smallpox, aristocratic British mothers went abroad to get their children "engrafted". Even Druid priests of ancient Britain ran a primitive vaccination programme using pus from smallpox victims. But other cultures introduced diseased matter, a practice that dates back to old China. Some jabs are symbolic: Ancient Egyptians would tattoo cat silhouettes on their infants' arms to enlist the protection of the cat goddess Bastet, while Bhaca parents of southern Africa scarify their babies' cheeks at full moon, offering a spiritual shield against disease. Immunisation is an ancient intervention and it has always required the faith of those who offer up their children for its apparently magical protection. So what is a modern, over-informed parent to do? Families from Africa to the Far East have historically used the "fingers crossed" approach when deciding whether or not to vaccinate their young.
Here is a subject so thoroughly argued that I honestly think I would rather wallow in ignorance than hear another word of it. On this particular hot topic, it is not a question of hushed cover-up, but of noisy overkill. Ironic then, that the Channel Five drama was called Hear the Silence. "She's just had her MMR!" I wailed, "Doesn't anyone want to write that down?" Fifteen years have passed and I am unaware that either side is writing down the data or opinions provided by the opposition. "She'll be perfectly OK," came the pursed-lip reply.Īnd when, three days later, Frances fell so dangerously ill she could not eat and was struggling to breathe, no hospital doctor was remotely interested that she had been immunised. I explained that, since I was already committed to the principle of the jab, I wasn't seeking reassurance, but information. "Your daughter will be fine," she replied. When, aged 15 months, my daughter Frances became one of the first batch of children to be immunised with the triple MMR vaccine - newly arrived from America! - I asked the nurse about possible side-effects. This is not so much a discussion as a race for moral high-ground, each side wielding childhood death and damage statistics like light sabres in the dark.įor we are in the dark. But you won't get the whole truth when doctors are paid incentive fees to vaccinate and drug companies are involved, goes the counter-spin. Your Country Needs You to vaccinate your child in order to protect other, vulnerable children in the community, runs the official argument. The trouble is that the vaccination question is not merely personal but political.