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The claim

The vaccination of children against flu has contributed to the recent Strep A outbreak which has killed 25 children in England at the time of writing.

Rating

False: The team of scientists who wrote the 2014 paper that is used to back up the claim said their study had received attention from the antivaccine movement. They said their findings had been misinterpreted, “perhaps intentionally”.

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