Encouraging vaccine acceptance

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REMEMBER when we were growing up and being vaccinated against childhood diseases was the norm? Most of us received these vaccines and it didn’t take a medical doctor to attest to the fact that they protected us from disease.

And for us Africans who intended to travel outside the continent, we had to get the yellow fever vaccine if we wanted to enter other countries, Malaysia included. I still remember carrying the vaccination card attached to my passport to be presented for boarding and disembarkation.