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VOTE: Bolton is on top of immunising its youngsters - The Bolton News 9th September 2009
MORE children are being immunised against measles, mum-ps and rubella in Bolton than in most parts of the country.
New figures show that 92 per cent of youngsters in the town received the vaccine before their second birthday — the national average is 85 per cent.
Measles powder could soon replace vaccine jabs for children - Daily Mail 18th July 2009
A new needle-free measles vaccine with the potential to save thousands of children's lives will soon be tested on patients.
The revolutionary vaccine uses an inhalable dry powder to administer a weakened measles virus to the lungs.
Baby measles immune boost call - BBC Health News 30th May 2009
Babies exposed to measles should be injected with antibodies to temporarily boost their immunity, UK experts say.
The Health Protection Agency researchers also advise lowering the age at which the MMR vaccine can be given in an outbreak to six months.
Measles jab clinic licence delay - BBC Health News 28th May 2009
A private company which is offering single measles vaccines said it cannot hold them in a Carmarthenshire town caught up in a measles outbreak.
Desumo cannot get a licence to run the clinic in Llanelli in time for Saturday but is offering to take 50 children to a clinic in Worcestershire by coach.
Measles still on increase in Merseyside children, say Health Protection Agency - Liverpool Daily Post 28th May 2009
MERSEYSIDE health chiefs are renewing their plea to get all children immunised with the MMR vaccine, after measles cases rocketed in early 2009.
The Health Protection Agency North West says 20 children in Merseyside and Cheshire have contracted the potentially fatal disease since January, compared with just one case during the same period last year.
Measles death fears in outbreak - BBC Health News 26th May 2009
Health chiefs fear one of the biggest measles outbreaks in Wales will become fatal after figures showed 207 people are suffering from the virus.
Several people have been treated in intensive care units after the worst outbreak of the disease in years.
Measles outbreak spreads - Manchester Evening News 16th March 2009
A MEASLES outbreak which has already seen three children treated in hospital is spreading.
Six cases of the virus have been confirmed in Oldham and North Manchester in the last couple of weeks and now doctors suspect a further four youngsters are affected.
Children hit by measles - Manchester Evening News 13th March 2009
THREE children have been treated in hospital after an outbreak of measles in Greater Manchester.
Youngsters aged one to 17 have been affected by the disease and six cases have been confirmed with laboratory tests in the last week although doctors say more youngsters in north east Manchester and Oldham have been affected.
Making sense of MMR Jab - Carlisle News & Star 18th February 2009
A LACK of confidence in the MMR vaccine is damaging public health and putting children in Furness at risk from a deadly disease health experts warn.
During the last six months of 2008, 35 cases of measles were recorded across Cumbria and Lancashire.
How the middle-class MMR refuseniks are putting every child at risk - Daily Mail 18th February 2009
Sipping a sludgy-looking concoction of herbs and mashed mung beans, Joanne offers me a beige lump which I have no trouble declining. It's an organic biscuit from Guadeloupe, she tells me.
Chewing on her biscuit, she shakes her head. 'I don't understand it,' she says. 'Hardly anyone can come to Silas's birthday party next month.'
Immunisation plea as measles cases rocket - Crewe Chronicle 11th February 2009
THE major measles outbreak in South and Mid Cheshire during the last three months of 2008 accounted for the majority of cases of the disease confirmed in the North West, figures have revealed.\n\nThe figures published by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) showed that in the country as a whole, 1,348 cases were confirmed in 2008, up from 990 in 2007.
We need an inquiry into how Andrew Wakefield got away with it - The Times 14th February 2009
This week Australia was pronounced to be “measles-free”. A few days earlier, health figures from England and Wales showed that measles cases last year had risen to 1,348 cases – the highest level for 13 years, and up by more than a third on 2007.
Had there not been a doctor called Andrew Wakefield, apparently convinced of a link between measles and autism that no one else could find, and that was rebutted by every epidemiological study ever undertaken, would Britain not be enjoying a similar status as Australia?
Q&A: Andrew Wakefield and the MMR vaccine - The Times 14th February 2009
What is the MMR jab? Is it safe?
There is no evidence to suggest that MMR – the triple vaccine for measles mumps and rubella – is unsafe. More than 500 million doses have been administered in 90 countries since the 1970s, and international research has concluded that no deaths have been linked to it, or any permanent damage caused. It was first used in Britain in 1988 to replace single vaccines for each of the illnesses, and is recommended for all children aged 12 and 13 months old in two doses.
Health Bosses Warning On Measles Outbreak - Crewe Guardian 9th February 2009
MORE cases of measles were confirmed in the North West during the last three months of last year than anywhere else in England and Wales.
The outbreak, which has been prevalent in South Cheshire, has sparked health bosses to urge parents in the area to have their children immunised with the MMR vaccine.
Lucy Atkins: Why are parents still scared of the MMR jab? - The Guardian 6th February 2009
Measles is on the rise, thanks to the autism scare a decade ago, which is now discredited – but have parents really listened?
MMR: Key dates in the crisis - The Sunday Times 8th February 2009
October 1988 MMR triple vaccine starts in UK after use in America since 1971
February 1996 A solicitor, Richard Barr, hires Andrew Wakefield at £150 per hour to support a legal attack on MMR makers as some parents raise concerns over the vaccine
Hidden records show MMR truth - The Sunday Times 8th February 2009
A Sunday Times investigation has found that altered data was behind the decade-long scare over vaccination
Steep rise in measles blamed on MMR scare - The Times 7th February 2009
Cases of measles rose by more than a third last year in the wake of a slump in uptake of the MMR vaccine following unfounded concerns about its safety.\n\nData from the Health Protection Agency showed there were 1,348 cases in 2008 in England and Wales - a 36 per cent rise on the 990 in 2007. The latest figure underlines the surge in confirmed cases tracked during the course of last year, which saw the 2007 total passed as early as October. It is the highest figure since the monitoring scheme was introduced in 1995
How the MMR scare led to the return of measles - The Sunday Times 8th February 2009
There were 1,348 cases of measles in the UK last year, according to the Health Protection Agency, up 36% from 2007. In 1998, the year that Andrew Wakefield published his research in The Lancet, there were 56 cases.
Last year 84.5% of two-year-olds in the UK received one dose of the MMR vaccine. By age five, when the second dose is due, the rate is 77.9%. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that 95% be vaccinated to achieve “herd immunity” (in which unvaccinated individuals are too few and far between to allow an infection to spread).
Measles most prevalent here - Liverpool Daily Post 6th February 2009
MORE cases of measles were confirmed in the North West during the last three months of 2008 than anywhere else in England and Wales, figures published by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) reveal.
In the country as a whole, 1348 cases were confirmed in 2008, up from 990 in 2007.
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