The benefit of the decrease in invasive bacterial infections due to vaccination programmes for infants is among the most important achievements of the past. (ersroadmap.org)
However, attempts to introduce compulsory vaccination programmes at the state level have run up against opposition. (newscientist.com)
In the run up to the badger culls in 2013, Owen Paterson did all he could to undermine the Welsh government's badger vaccination programme on both cost and effectiveness grounds. (politics.co.uk)