Vaccines: The US is endangering children while Africa leads the way – The Mail & Guardian

Vaccines: The US is endangering children while Africa leads the way – The Mail & Guardian

Every year, Immunisation Week arrives as a gentle global reminder of the power of prevention — of the syringe over the scalpel, the clinic over the emergency room, the vaccine card over the death certificate. And yet this year, it comes cloaked in a darker tone.  For decades, the US led the world in public health innovation. But now, in a bitter twist of irony, it is becoming an empire of denial and disinformation, where political cynicism is pu…