Public Health Wales has reported that the number of measles cases has risen to 886, as children have gone back to school after Easter. 25-year-old Gareth Williams died during the epidemic, it has not been confirmed whether measles was the cause.
Doctors are bracing themselves for the first death in the south Wales measles epidemic as the number of cases was expected to double to 1,400.
More than 2,700 people were vaccinated at drop-in clinics across the region, according to The Sunday Times (£), which quoted one official as saying:
The newspaper said officials had expressed alarm at the number of children who are unvaccinated following a vociferous local campaign in the late 1990s against the supposed dangers of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine.
A man who died in from a suspected case of measles in Wales was infected with the disease at the time of his death, health officials said.
A mother convinced the MMR vaccine led to her son's autism has not immunised her daughter, despite the link being disproved.