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Why one year apart?

Wakefield is also behind the suggestion to take the single vaccines one year apart - an idea that most doctors offering single jabs are sticking to. What's his reasoning?
'It's purely empirical - we have no idea. It's the public health people's job to look into that.' Andrew Wakefield

But Liz Miller - whose unit forms part of the Public Health Laboratory Service - was unimpressed when we put this to her.
'Those who put forward this myth have never properly explained the reasoning behind it.'



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