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But vaccination rates have dropped in some communities in recent decades as a loose network of vaccine sceptics have without evidence questioned the safety and efficacy of the shots.

But critics fret about safety, cost and nuclear waste – it is a sector with sceptics to convince after the disasters at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986 and Fukushima in Japan in 2011.

Old sceptics, hard-bitten by a quarter of a century of nothingness, were beginning to turn.

RFK Jr has long been a vaccine sceptic and has baselessly claimed there is a link between vaccines and autism.

Even the biggest sceptics will no doubt be reeled in by the inevitable controversy Fury will provide at a news conference.