“Large numbers of unprotected children are now entering school. Unless this is rectified urgently there will be further outbreaks and more unnecessary deaths.”
Letter from 28 paediatricians at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, on the risk of measles outbreaks among children in the UK who were not vaccinated against it due to fears of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism (The Daily Telegraph, London, 27 June)
“In small quantities this is a good fertiliser, but too much acidity is bad for the soil and could damage or even kill the trees.”
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Tilman Lamparter at the Free University of Berlin in Germany, on the impact of hundreds of thousands of football fans urinating in the bushes in Berlin city centre (The Observer, London, 25 June)
“Putting her in a museum would be like selling your grandmother for science.”
Kelsey Moulton, curator at the Australia Zoo, Queensland, on whether Harriet, a 176-year-old tortoise believed to have been taken from the Galapagos Islands by Charles Darwin, should be buried or put on display. She died on 23 June (The Australian, 27 June)
“Japanese people simply aren’t having sex.”
Kunio Kitamura, head of the Japan Family Planning Association, on the reasons behind the country’s falling birth rate (The Japan Times, 22 June)
“It’s the equivalent of trying to coordinate 100 people dancing on a trampoline at the same time.”
Eric Wilkinson of technology company Cambridge Consultants, which is using 100 fans to try to replicate the effects of a hurricane on a family home near Ontario, Canada, without using a wind tunnel (BBC News online, 26 June)
