Vaccine hesitancy would harm pandemic flu response

The rise of fake news and “vaccine fatigue” could seriously harm the response to a global flu pandemic on the scale of the 2009 swine flu outbreak, experts have warned. Flu experts told a conference on pandemic preparedness at Chatham House in London that falling public trust in vaccines and short memories meant that the world would struggle to fight a deadly outbreak of flu. Marc van Ranst, a virologist at Leuven University in Belgium and the man who led his country’s response to the 2009...