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July 10, 2002
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Doctors Angry Over Livingstone MMR Talk"
Birmingham Post (UK) (www.virtualbirmingham.co.uk/internal/post)
(07/04/02) P. 7
British Medical Association Chairman Dr. Ian Bogle wants London
Mayor Ken Livingstone to apologize and retract a recent statement
in which Livingstone advised parents to opt for single injections
for measles, mumps, and rubella, instead of the combined vaccine.
General practitioner Dr. Anthony Grewal noted at the
association's annual conference that MMR vaccination rates in
London are already dangerously low. One survey indicates that
London has the worst MMR take-up rate in the United Kingdom, with
an average of 72.6 percent of parents getting the MMR vaccination
for their children compared to the 83.3 percent national average.
Dr. Bogle noted that "the scientific evidence shows that MMR is
the way forward to give maximum protection to children in this
country."
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