Vaccinations should be compulsory for 'the greater good' - vaccine inventorSUPPLIED The HPV vaccination is offered to all teens in New Zealand, and offers protection from human papillomavirus. Professor Ian Frazer said immunisation should be treated as a public health issue for the general good of the public. SUPPLIED Professor Ian Frazer invented the HPV vaccine, and was named Australian of the Year in 2006. The Australian researcher is most famously known as the inventor of the HPV vaccine, which immunises against human papillomavirus to protect women from cervical cancer. Frazer said there was no evidence the HPV vaccine could be unsafe for teenage girls, as has been suggested by some vaccine opponents.

Source: Stuff June 22, 2017 21:14 UTC