A specialist in public health medicine in the Midwest is expressing concerns that parents are holding off on vaccinating their children due to ‘faulty facts’ on social media.
It’s after a Royal Irish Academy report suggested some parents were still listening to false claims made about MMR vaccines two decades ago.
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Experts are now to begin circulating a paper on vaccines in order to debunk misinformation being circulated online.
Dr Rose Fitzgerald, who’s a Specialist in Public Health Medicine with Public Health Midwest, believes people shouldn’t be afraid to ask medical experts their views on vaccination issues.