'Record' MMR jabs for 2-year-olds
Almost 2,500 doses of MMR have been given in GP surgeries in Wales in the last week, according to Public Health Wales.
Health Minister denies slow measles response
The Health Minister has rejected opposition suggestions that the Welsh Government was 'slow' to respond to the measles outbreak in Swansea. Mark Drakeford told AMs that health chiefs were 'in no respects behind the curve' in handling the outbreak.
He said that vaccination clinics were offered immediately after the first handful of cases emerged in November but that the number of parents taking up the offer of jabs only increased significantly following media reports after Christmas.
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Q&A: What is measles and how is it treated?
2013 is expected to be the worst year for measles in the UK for the past two decades. Read more about the illness and how it is treated.
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No measles emergency yet, but medics want to prevent one
If the Government's top adviser on immunisation thinks the risk of an emergency in England is a possibility, I believe him.