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>Subject: UK: Mass Jabs To Stop Measles Deaths

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>From: " Sue " <mum2mishka@...>

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>Has anyone ever heard such a hysterical

>headline? And each time they drag up that poor

>boy who died from complications of measles and

>who had a -pre-existing medical condition that made him vulnerable....

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>I'm looking for a brick wall to bang my head against!

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>1:23pm UK, Saturday November 29, 2008

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> May, North of England correspondent

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>A measles outbreak is threatening lives,

>prompting a mass vaccination programme in one of the country's worst-hit areas.

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>Cases of the disease are soaring across England and Wales

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>Doctors are preparing to immunise residents in a

>small corner of east Cheshire around Crewe,

>where almost 70 cases have been reported this year.

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>The alarming figures are worse than anywhere in

>England and Wales outside London.

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>Dr Ayo Oyinolye, from Cheshire Health Protection

>Unit, told Sky News: " The outbreak here is not

>showing any signs of tailing off.

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> " If we don't respond the infection will grow,

>and in the worst case scenario, we will see one

>or two deaths and many children suffering

>serious side effects from the disease. "

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>Teams of nurses will vaccinate up to 10,500

>children in 177 primary schools and 33 secondary

>schools. The jab will also be offered to young staff members.

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>Measles cases are soaring across England and

>Wales with 1,049 confirmed cases so far this

>year, surpassing last year's total of 990.

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>Dr Rosemary McCann, from the Health Protection

>Agency, said: " Britain is on the cusp of a

>measles epidemic because a large cohort of

>children and teenagers missed out on MMR

>vaccination over the past five to 10 years. "

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>In 2006, a 13-year old boy from north west

>England became the first person in the UK to die of the virus in 14 years.

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>Last August the Chief Medical Officer announced

>an MMR catch-up programme, urging Primary Care

>Trusts and GPs to identify individuals not yet vaccinated.

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>As a result of the recent outbreak in Cheshire,

>the local Health Protection Unit has written to

>parents seeking urgent consent for their children to be immunised.

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>Dr Oyinolye said: " This is a big step but it's a

>nasty disease which is avoidable.

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> " So long as MMR uptake is low, we have a large

>number of children who are not immune…the virus

>can easily spread across the country. "

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