Save lives using gift of the jab

WHY, in 2025, the year when our world is the most scientifically advanced it has ever been, are we facing a measles epidemic? It makes absolutely no sense. We have long had an effective, safe vaccine for measles. That's why the disease had, until recently, retreated to the fringes of daily life: an occasional and mercifully rare unwelcome visitor to remind us of the bad old days; those unhappy times before immunisation arrived to save children from the grim consequences of an awful disease.

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But it's back. Not because it has morphed into a new and vaccine-proof virus. Sadly, it's because increasing numbers of parents, misled and misinformed by duff, dangerous online hokum, have been tricked into believing that the vaccine is more dangerous than the disease.