Measles - Stay fit for Christmas!
15 Dec 2011
Check with your GP to see if you are protected, people who cannot show that they were vaccinated as children and who have never had measles should probably be vaccinated
This month already there are reports of large outbreaks from Ukraine and Uganda where vaccine uptake is low According to a WHO report, there have been over 26,000 measles reported cases in 36 European countries so far this year.
There have been nine deaths, including six in France, and 7,288 hospitalisations.
In England and Wales there have been almost 1,000 confirmed cases - nearly triple the 374 total for 2010.
Across the Europe, 90 per cent of cases have been in those definitely or probably not vaccinated.
In the UK it is recommended that 2 MMR should be given with a month apart to those who are not protected. This we can provide from The Travel Clinic Ltd, Cambridge and Ipswich
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