MMR, Wakefield and The Lancet: what can we learn?
Authors: Julie Leask, Robert Booy and Peter B McIntyre
Published online: 2 August 2010
Missing text: In “MMR, Wakefield and The Lancet: what can we learn?” in the 5 July 2010 issue of the Journal (Med J Aust 2010; 193: 5-7), a line of text was omitted in the third-last paragraph (page 6). The text, from the beginning of the paragraph, should be “Second, public communication about vaccine risk, particularly regarding responses to adverse events following vaccination in new vaccine programs, needs to be planned, and should involve multiple stakeholders, as new issues can arise with little warning. This occurred as recently as 23 April 2010, when Australia’s Chief Medical Officer advised a temporary suspension of the 2010 trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine to children 5 years of age and under.15”