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Decades after a sham study threatened to permanently undermine trust in the MMR jab, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, the World Health Organization declared the disease had been eliminated for the first time in the UK.
“This is a huge achievement and a testament to all the hard work by our health professionals in the NHS to ensure that all children and adults are fully protected with two doses of the MMR vaccine.”
“We’re at a point where there’s a very large susceptible population of children,” Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, told the Guardian in an interview this week.
The rise in cases is partly a legacy of the pandemic, says Prof Stuart Neil, head of the department of infectious diseases at King’s College London.
“Due to the success of the UK immunisation programme, many parents will have no first-hand experience of measles,” said Dr David Elliman, a paediatrician at London’s Great Ormond Street hospital.
Nationally, strategies promised by the NHS and government to boost vaccination rates urgently need to be enacted, says Dr Ronny Cheung of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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