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'GP
told me single jabs were illegal'
By Lorraine Fraser
(Filed: 05/08/2001)
MICHAELA ELLIOTT-VASS took her six-year-old daughter
Holly to one of the clinics run by Desumo in Worcester earlier this
year because she wanted the child to be given separate injections for
measles, mumps and rubella.
"I have a friend whose son was damaged by the MMR
and I got Crohn's disease when I was seven months' pregnant with my
daughter. I felt it was too much for a child to have so many
immuno-suppressant drugs in one injection," said Mrs Elliott-Vass,
of Ross-on-Wye.
She visited her GP two years ago to enquire about
separate vaccinations. The doctor promised to try to get the single
vaccines for her daughter but, after a long wait, he told her:
"Sorry, you can't have it. It is against the law now."
She said: "He was very against me having them
separately, he turned round to me and said, `I think your daughter
should have MMR and if she gets blind or dies you have only got
yourself to blame', which I thought was dreadful. They say you are
putting your child at risk by leaving a gap between the individual
vaccinations. Well, she's waited six years, what risk?"
She added: "I think the Government's decision to
withdraw the single measles vaccine was absolutely appalling. People
should have a free choice."
Describing the service at the Desumo clinic as
"fantastic", she said: "I was very, very impressed with
it. It would be a terrible shame if they could not continue."
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