Jab drop-off

9th June 2000, 1:00am

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Jab drop-off

https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/jab-drop
A DRAMATIC fall in the number of children being immunised against measles could trigger an epidemic within a year, the Department of Health has warned. With only 88 per cnt of children having the three-in-one jab for measles, mumps and rubella, the disease could come back. The last recorded measles death in Britain was in 1992.


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