We need to increase MMR vaccine uptake urgently: expert
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Professor Helen Bedford at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Helen Donovan at the Royal College of Nursing, say two doses of MMR vaccine are necessary for optimum protection and 95% vaccine coverage is required to prevent outbreaks. “Even a small decline in MMR vaccine uptake can herald disease outbreaks,” they warn.
