Measles: Public Health England urges all parents to vaccinate their children as cases increase



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Public Health England urged all parents to have their children vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), especially if they did not have it by the due date.

The call comes as new figures show 231 cases of measles confirmed in the first three months of this year, a little less than in the same period last year, but a significant increase since 2017. .

In England there were 913 laboratory-confirmed cases of measles from 1 January to 31 October 2018, compared to 259 in 2017.1 And 795 cases of …

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