A doctor combatting myths about the Covid vaccine on TikTok is calling for trainee medics to be be given social media lessons within their degrees.
Dr Bnar Talabani, 32, from Cardiff, is the only Welsh doctor on Team Halo, a UN-backed group of doctors and scientists using social media to dispel vaccine misinformation.
But the former refugee and co-founder of Muslim Doctors Cymru has been labelled "Dr Death" by trolls.
Anti-vaxxers have also targeted her.
"Young people are not going to read leaflets on government websites to get their information about vaccines - we need something that's far more engaging," said Dr Talabani, who specialises in kidney and transplant medicine but is doing a PhD in immunology.
"We should get training for this at medical school and when we're doing our scientific degrees to teach us how we can do it safely, professionally, appropriately - but in a way that's quite engaging.
"Not only had I never used TikTok before, but I didn't actually know how to create content. I don't dance, they do it really well and in a really fun way, but my approach is very simple - take a question, explain the answer."
Dr Talabani was born in Northern Iraq and moved to the UK as a refugee, aged 10.
She went on to help found Muslim Doctors Cymru, which provides information about Covid-19 in a range of languages, including Urdu, Pashtu, Punjabi, Bangla, Kurdish, Arabic, and...
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