Conspiracies and nonsense – the world according to anti-vaxxers

Nursery workers at the end of July were donning plastic aprons and gloves and introducing social distancing and PPE as a child in Liverpool had died due to measles.

- Emma Kay

It eerily echoes Covid protocol, yet the MMR vaccine has been around since 1988.

In 2025 there have been 500 confirmed cases, the majority in young children.

In 2023, there were an estimated 107,500 measles deaths globally, mostly among unvaccinated children under the age of five years.

Uptake of the vaccine has fallen drastically in England.

We are now only at 84%. To ensure herd immunity where people are protected enough to prevent virus spread we need to be at 95 per cent.