Injection of reason: The science behind vaccinations

Pat Fitzpatrick talks to author and maths expert Kit Yates, who makes a fact-based argument for vaccine programmes, including the HPV jab

Kit Yates’s mother’s untimely death has had a strong impact on his views. “She contracted cervical cancer it when I was five, she was 40,” he told me over the phone. “She was given the all-clear for a couple of years and then it came back really aggressively, there wasn’t much we could do.