Vaccination theory is just one big sneeze
This was quite appropriate because history had very little to do with his letter.
He questions, for instance, how anyone would have known that a virus was responsible for the Spanish flu of 1918-1919 when it "took a British science team to identify the first virus in man in 1933".
For the record, that discovery was made decades earlier in 1901 by Walter Reed, an American.
Mr Carroll further states that seven American soldiers dropped dead after being vaccinated.
If he thinks the Spanish flu was a kind of early day Gulf War Syndrome brought on by vaccination, how does he explain the more than half-a-million American civilians who had nothing to do with the military, or the fact that it spread to virtually every country in the world?
He might just as well conclude that it came from Mars in a meteor shower. That's not history, but the rest is!
Ryle Dwyer,
Tralee,
Co Kerry
