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Health

xchrom

(108,903 posts) Wed Apr 24, 2013, 07:09 AM Apr 2013

Long shadow cast by MMR scare

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22085678

***SNIP

There is now a huge cohort of children who are not protected and this has allowed the measles virus to circulate - often infecting babies who are too young to have had the MMR vaccine.

There were 2,016 confirmed cases of measles in England and Wales in 2012, the highest total for 18 years.

The number of cases in the current Swansea outbreak has reached 620.

Epidemic
"The age range of those most affected exactly maps the period after the Wakefield scare, so very many are in the 10-14 age group", said Dr Paul Cosford, medical director, Public Health England.