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posted by janrinok on Monday November 27 2017, @08:27PM   Printer-friendly

England's National Health Service is urging parents to get their children vaccinated for the flu ahead of the holiday season to protect grandparents and other vulnerable relatives:

Flu vaccines administered through a nasal spray rather than an injection have been rolled out this autumn for two and three-year-olds, and children in reception class and years one to four in primary school. Children are super-spreaders because of the greater likelihood of them contracting flu at nursery or school, where germs are passed on at a rapid rate. But only 18% of school-age children have had the nasal spray immunisation, according to the latest figures.

Prof Keith Willett, NHS England's medical director for acute care, said: "Flu can be spread more easily by children, especially to vulnerable relatives such as older grandparents, those with heart or lung conditions and pregnant family members. Last year, millions of people missed out on their free vaccination and yet it's one simple, common sense step to help us all stay healthy this winter."

With less than a month until Christmas, the NHS is urging parents to book their children in for the free vaccination to help curb infection over the festive season, when family get-togethers can spread the infection.

Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror (a tabloid) claims that Russian agents are spreading anti-vaccination propaganda in the UK in an effort to destabilize the country:

Russian cyber units are spreading false information about flu and measles jabs in the UK, experts warn. [Ed's Note: The current flu immunisation is applied via a nasal spray - there are no 'jabs' involved.] Vladimir Putin is believed to want to erode trust in US and European governments. The state-sponsored units are spreading the lies on social media to destabilise Britain, it is claimed. The Kremlin has previously been accused of attempting to influence Brexit and Scottish independence. Now, it is feared it is trying to create distrust over flu jabs and the MMR measles vaccine.

[...] Security services are so concerned over the threat to public health and security that Government departments have been ordered to monitor social media and flag up risky articles. Health chiefs have had emerg­ency meetings over the spread "fake news" over vaccination campaigns. [...] We can reveal public health officials are investigating whether an outbreak of measles last week in Liverpool and Leeds was fuelled by parents not vaccinating children due to "false information read on the internet".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @06:59AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @06:59AM (#602384)

    Your media purposely avoids covering terrorist attacks. Some can't be hidden, so they get covered, but little minor ones (the most common) don't get coverage.

    Your media purposely avoids covering the high levels of violence, particularly rape, committed by the non-European Islamic migrants.

    Your media latches onto anything that could be considered "domestic right-wing extremist violence". Any little thing gets lots of coverage. It's really disproportionate.

    There are many reasons for this. Culturally, it is no longer acceptable to be proud of your own country. There is video, astonishing to Americans, of your prime minister being handed a flag and then disrespectfully disposing of it as quickly as possible. She doesn't want to be seen with it! You don't have freedom of speech. If you dare to say the "wrong" thing about migrants or muslims, you get put in prison. Normal people will self-censor. Normal people won't take even a small chance of going to prison, so they don't even say many things that are perfectly legal. Your government is busy fighting facebook to get all anti-migrant and anti-islam and pro-german comments blocked, allowing for zero failures. You simply aren't allowed to see alternative viewpoints. They treat you like a small child.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Tuesday November 28 2017, @08:11AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday November 28 2017, @08:11AM (#602405) Journal

    Just for the record: We don't have a prime minister. Which highlights how "well informed" you actually are about Germany.

    The only thing that is true is that many Germans have a problem with the concept of being proud of your country. This has good reasons, as this has been abused in the past (and is abused in lots of countries, including the USA, although generally to a lesser degree). However you don't get into prison for saying the "wrong" thing about migrants or Muslims (otherwise there would be lots of publicly very visible figures already in prison).

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