Vaccine complexity

Despite ongoing concerns about the triple MMR vaccine and lowered take up for children there are plans to introduce, over the next few years, a new range of multiple vaccines to protect against seven diseases. There are also plans to add chickenpox vaccine making MMR a quadruple vaccine. As the prime basis for concern, as in separate legal action on Gulf War Syndrome, is the effect on vulnerable individuals of a cocktail of drugs (single event overload) surely it is time the government backed down and gave parents the legal choice of single or multiple protection for their children. Do they really want to risk another ‘thalidomide’?