Vaccination theory is just one big sneeze

PATRICK J CARROLL concludes his letter (Irish Examiner, May 8) about my article on the Spanish flu pandemic (May 1) with: “the rest is history”.

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".

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