Published Date:
16 July 2007
IN THE first half of 2006, there were 449 cases of measles in the UK, the biggest outbreak for over 20 years. One reason for this jump in the incidence of measles is the unwillingness of some parents to have their children vaccinated with MMR, a combined protection against measles, mumps and rubella that was introduced in 1988 to replace single vaccines for each disease.
This fear of MMR stems from a scientific paper published in the Lancet in 1998, in which Dr Andrew Wakefield, then a researcher at London's Royal Free Hospital, inferred the triple vaccine was linked to an increased risk of autism in children. In the...
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Last Updated:
15 July 2007 8:52 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
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