Taking on the anti-vaccine trolls

It has taken public health authorities years to recover from previous scares such as the one caused by wholly discredited claims that there was a link between the MMR vaccine and autism

Laura Brennan, who died earlier this year from cervical cancer, was an influential voice for the HPV vaccination

Ireland was one of the first countries in the world to successfully reverse the decline in the uptake of the cervical cancer vaccine.

The rise in vaccinations is regarded as significant, as it has taken public health authorities years to recover from previous scares such as the one caused by wholly discredited claims that there was a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

The reversal came as a relief to doctors and ...