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Why does Ireland have poor childhood vaccine coverage?

|reland has the third lowest childhood vaccine coverage among high-income nations globally. It al...

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16.35 25 Jun 2025


Why does Ireland have poor childhood vaccine coverage?


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16.35 25 Jun 2025


|reland has the third lowest childhood vaccine coverage among high-income nations globally.

It also has the sixth lowest coverage among the countries on the European continent and the second lowest among western European nations.

Why is this the case?

To answer this and discuss further, guest host Jonathan Healy is joined by Professor of Experimental Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, Kingston Mills.


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