vaccine

Vaccination for Dummies

I would have to say that most patients I come into contact with will vaccinate their children and themselves, however there have been an increasing number of anti-vaxers emerging.  Their argument against vaccinations range from ‘wanting to be immune the natural way’ to vaccinations causing autism. What is a vaccination? Let’s start by looking at our immune system.  When

The Zika Virus

The Zika virus has become the new Ebola, it is everywhere we look.  How do we make sense of it all? Lets starts at the beginning… The Zika virus was named after a forest in Uganda where the virus was first found in a monkey in 1947, so it has been around for quite some time.  For unknown reasons