Vaccines: two centuries of scepticism

A nurse prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center, in Sarcelles near Paris on January 10, 2021. — AFP/File Wariness and outright hostility to vaccines did not start with COVID-19 but date back to the 18th century.One cartoon in 1802 showed vaccinated people turning into monsters that were half man, half cow.In Afghanistan, the…Continue Reading