The Jab That Kids Need to Have This Autumn.. ; Dear Miriam

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It's worrying that the uptake of the MMR vaccine among the parents of two-year-old kids has stayed at 85% for the third year running.

This is especially concerning as we're almost certainly in line for a second wave of swine flu. Getting measles and swine flu at the same time could be a serious threat to children's health.

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The Jab That Kids Need to Have This Autumn.. ; Dear Miriam

More than a decade ago, measles, mumps and rubella vaccine uptake was just above 90% but it temporarily dropped to 50% in places after Dr Andrew Wakefield wrongly suggested a link between the vaccine and autism and inflammatory bowel disease.

While it did climb again afterward...

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