A father who lost his baby son to deadly meningococcal meningitis has blasted boxer Anthony Mundine’s anti-vaccination comments. 9News
The professor said it was “a concern” that sportspeople and their partners were sharing their anti-vaxxer views.NRL WAGS Taylor Winterstein and Shannelle Cartwright have also recently posted on social media saying they wouldn’t be vaccination their children.
“I’d love to sit down with him for a couple of hours and go through all his questions and concerns, and really show that infections diseases are nasty to people, and you’ve got much more benefit and safety from being vaccinated, than not,” he told Fordham.Fordham also hit out at Mundine, telling him sharing his views is dangerous.
“Anthony if you did your research, you’d know that vaccines protect children from hepitius, influenza, measles, meningococcal, mumps, chickenpox - the list goes on and on,” he said. “And I think the professor we just spoke to knows a little bit more about these things than you Anthony, even though you’re known as The Man.“It’s very dangerous, Anthony, when you use your public profile to speak BS about topics you know precious little about.
“So why would you think as a boxer, whose spent his time in a ring being belted in the head that you’d know more about this than them?”
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