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Child Health: Call for action on MMR jab
By Laura Marcus,
Nursery World,
13 March 2008
Researchers studying the uptake of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine have called for early years settings to do more to counter the rise in cases of measles.
Health Protection Agency data shows there were 971 cases of measles in 2007, compared with 740 in 2006. A University College London study used data from the Millennium Cohort Study of 14,578 children born in the UK from 2000 to 2002 and looked at factors associated with the uptake of MMR. The study found 88.6 per cent received the MMR and 5.2 per cent had received at least one single antigen vaccine, leaving 6.2 per cent...
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