UK measles outbreak
April 24, 2013
MORE than 600 young people
in Wales have been affected by
a tragic measles outbreak, which
has been linked to a vaccination
controversy 15 years ago.
Health authorities have urged
everyone younger than 43 years of
age who had not had measles or
been vaccinated against it to have
an immunisation now, leading to
queues at hospitals and clinics in
South Wales.
The outbreak is centred in
Swansea, where according to the
UK Telegraph, a local newspaper
had campaigned strenuously
against the MMR vaccine in the
late 1990s, based on a now widely
discredited study which claimed
a link between the vaccine and
autism and bowel disease.
Despite an increase in vaccination
rates, “unfortunately there is
a cohort of young people who
weren’t vaccinated and have now
reached secondary school,” said
Dr Roland Salmon, consultant
epidemiologist for Public Health
Wales.
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