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Associated Press

 
Concerns About Flawed Measles Immunizations
July 9, 2003

LONDON (AP) -- Concerns about possible flaws in many measles immunizations prompted the government on Tuesday to ask parents who had used two private clinics to take their children to family doctors.

The Department of Health estimated that over a 10-year period at the clinics, both of which are now closed, some 40,000 children had received single vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella. The clinics did not follow correct procedures in handling the medication, health officials said.

The affected children had single immunization injections at the clinics because of their parents' fears about the safety of the traditional triple measles-mumps-rubella inoculation, or MMR.

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