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February 4, 2002

 

“Eight Out of 10 Are Opposed to MMR Triple Jab”

Daily Telegraph (UK) (www.portal.telegraph.co.uk) (02/04/02) P.

5; Ghafour, Hamida

In the United Kingdom, a recent poll revealed that eight out of 10 people thought parents should be given an alternative to the MMR vaccine, which is given to children to protect them from measles, mumps, and rubella.  According to the poll, which was commissioned by ITV’s “Tonight With Trevor McDonald,” 85 percent of the respondents believed the National Health Service should offer a choice between separate injections and the triple vaccine.  A further 55 percent of respondents wanted the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to say whether his son was given the combined vaccine, and 38 percent expressed a general unhappiness with how the British government had handled the campaign to convince parents to allow their children to be given the MMR vaccine.  In separate news, the Public Health Laboratory recently stated that the number of children receiving the MMR vaccine has fallen below 85 percent.  Experts say that no less than 95 percent of a population must be vaccinated in order to prevent an epidemic from breaking out.

 

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