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Wakefield, 60, and Macpherson, 54, were visiting a disgraced physician, Andrew Wakefield, whose false claims about the MMR vaccine made 20 years ago continue to be responsible for measles outbreaks . organic farmers market in Miami. Both are now living in the United States and have been spotted several times in recent months.
Wakefield was banned from practicing medicine in the UK in 2010, but continues to campaign against vaccines in the United States. He attended one of President Trump's inauguration balls 18 months ago. Mr Trump expressed his support for the anti-vaxxer movement.
Wakefield sparked worldwide alarm in 1998 when, as a gastroenterologist consultant at Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, he published a research article in The Lancet that linked the measles, mumps, and measles vaccine. rubella with autism and intestinal diseases. and Andrew go shopping at a farmers' market in Miami (Splash News / SplashNews.com)
The study was based on symptoms that he claimed to have seen in 12 children. It was found to be false and was eventually withdrawn by the newspaper.
Doctors blamed the legacy of the scandal for measles outbreaks, most recently across Europe, which erased progress in eliminating the disease.
Macpherson, nicknamed The Body, divorced billionaire developer Jeffrey Soffer last year.
She has two children, Flynn, 19, and Aurelius, 14, from her previous relationship with financier Arpad Busson. Wakefield was separated from his wife Carmel last year.
Wakefield in 2007 with his wife Carmel, from whom he is separated, during his medical court (PA)
Macpherson's agent told The Evening Standard today that she was aware of press reports of a relationship with Wakefield, but declined to comment.
Children born between 1998 and 2002, at the height of the Wakefield scandal, are most likely to have missed one or the other of two doses of the MMR vaccine, administered in two doses, just before the first birthday and at three years four months.
Consumption has been low in countries like Romania, France, Greece, and Italy, with at least 49 measles deaths reported in the EU since 2016.
According to Public Health England, there were 757 laboratory-confirmed cases of measles between 1 January and 6 July this year.
This is almost three times the 274 recorded for the whole of last year. Of the cases this year, 268 were reported in London.
PHE said that it was not too late to get a catch-up vaccine and advised people to consult their general practitioner.
Dr. Mary Ramsay, responsible for vaccination at PHE, said: we are currently seeing in England are linked to major epidemics underway in Europe.
"The majority of cases we see are among adolescents and young adults who missed their MMR vaccine when they were children."
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said the increase in measles figures was "so daunting when we consider how far we have come to completely eradicate this unpleasant infectious disease." ".
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