'Reservoirs of disease': Private school pupils 'at much greater risk' of getting measles

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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/reservoirs-of-disease-private-school-pupils-at-much-greater-risk-of-getting-measles-than-those-in-state-sector-says-leading-doctor-john-ashton-8590903.html

'Reservoirs of disease': Private school pupils 'at much greater risk' of getting measles than those in state sector, says leading doctor John Ashton


Children at private schools face the greatest risk from the measles outbreak and could pose a health threat to the rest of the population, a leading doctor has warned.

Professor John Ashton said Britain's 600,000 privately-educated children were at much greater risk of infection than those in the state sector.

Prof Ashton, who represents the UK's public health doctors, said a mix of large numbers of middle-class children who were not vaccinated against measles following the Wakefield scare in the 1990s, along with pupils from overseas with unknown health records, meant schools could become "reservoirs of disease", the Daily Telegraph said.

He said the risk was similar to that from groups such as gypsies and travellers, who have previously spread the disease.

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1. It would be useful if he provided some actual evidence.

Comparing private school kids with gypsies makes me believe this guy has a slightly hidden agenda.