VACCINE inventor, expert and Australian of the Year 2006 Professor Ian Frazer has encouraged New Zealand health authorities to follow Australia's lead and make vaccination compulsory for children "for the general good of the public".
Frazer drew a comparison of the policy with that of mandatory wearing of seatbelts, referencing the personal and societal cost of failing to wear them.
Also president of the Cancer Council Australia, and advisor to the World Health Organisation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Frazer was speaking at an event following a recent tour of the antivax film Vaxxed, promoting the discredited link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
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