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”.

Mon, 12 May, 2003 - 01:00

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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