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Autism rates back MMR jab safety
(BBC 22/09/2009)
Latest autism figures should dispel any fears about the MMR jab being linked to the condition, say experts. The NHS Information Centre found one in every hundred adults living in England has autism, which is identical to the rate in children. If the vaccine was to blame, autism rates among children should be higher because the MMR has only been available since the early 1990s, the centre says. This is the first time the rate in adults has been evaluated.
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Measles mumps and rubella vaccine uptake fails to rise
(Telegraph 03/09/2009)
Too many parents still resistant to immunising children with MMR jab as uptake fails to rise for third year running despite fears of epidemic. The NHS information centre said uptake rates remained at 85 per cent for the third year running. The number of children receiving the jab is lower than the 95 per cent needed for immunity in the community and lower than around a decade ago, when the rate was 92 per cent. The Government has been urging primary care trusts to work on increasing uptake rates over fears of an epidemic. Uptake hit a low of around 50 per cent in some parts of the country in the wake of research in 1998 linking it to autism in children.
Parents make MMR a priority as new term begins
(NHS Wales News 27/08/2009)
New figures from the National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS) show that thousands of Welsh parents have responded to the measles outbreak by arranging MMR jabs for their children. Nearly 6,500 parents in Wales have arranged catch-up vaccinations for their children since April 2009, when the NPHS announced a Wales-wide outbreak of measles. A total of 2,465 children between the ages of 4 and 16, who had previously missed their appointments for the first dose have now received vaccination.
(Daily Express 07/07/2009)
FRESH fears for the safety of MMR vaccinations will be raised this week with a claim that more than 3,000 British babies could be at risk of autism and even death each year. The claim centres on a condition that affects one in 200 people. In a new edition of his book, The Truth About Vaccines, Dr Richard Halvorsen, collates the latest studies that suggest children with the condition have developed autism after jabs.
Call to make MMR jab compulsory
(BBC 03/06/2009)
Public health expert Sir Sandy Macara believes children should not be able to go to school unless they have first been vaccinated. Uptake of the MMR vaccine fell sharply after controversial research wrongly linked it to a raised risk of autism. One in four children under five has not had both MMR injections, which are needed to give full protection against measles, mumps and rubella. One in four children under five has not had both MMR injections.
Measles menace
(BBC 19/05/2009)
Public health experts in Wales refer to it as the newspaper effect. During the height of the scare over the link between the MMR vaccine and autism local papers ran vociferous campaigns warning parents about the supposed dangers of the jab. The research, by Dr Andrew Wakefield, has now been discredited, but the problem is the damage has been done. With vaccination levels down to 15% in some schools, the region is seeing record numbers of measles cases.
MMR reminder issued after further increase of measles in North Wales
(NHS Wales News 01/05/2009)
The National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS) is urging parents to make sure their children receive the MMR vaccination following further reports of measles in and around Llandudno. The total number of cases of measles in individuals or families linked to the pupils already diagnosed with measles who attend Ysgol Ffordd Dyffryn and Ysgol John Bright, Llandudno, has now been confirmed as thirty-nine.
Jeremy Laurance: So who now is the Basil Fawlty of the MMR controversy?
(The Independent 10/03/2009)
Professor David Salisbury, as head of immunisation at the Department of Health, has one of the most difficult tasks in medicine: restoring confidence in the MMR vaccine. Why, then, is he imperilling the enterprise by threatening legal action against a website that has published a few critical remarks about him?
MMR vaccine not linked to autism US court rules
(Telegraph 12/02/2009)
The US Special Court of Federal Claims said campaigners' allegations that the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine contributed to autism were "speculative and unpersuasive". More than 5,500 claims have been filed by US families seeking compensation through the government's Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
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