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Dr. Mac Armstrong, the chief medical officer for
Scotland, is calling on parents to have their children vaccinated with the
combination measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Armstrong noted, The
annual uptake for MMR appears to be stabilizing at 87.5 percent, compared with
87.7 percent for 2001-02, but it concerns me that the quarterly uptake is at the
lowest level since the end of 2000. The government's target MMR uptake rate is
95 percent, but many parents are opting for individual shots, concerned over
purported links between the triple shot and autism.
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