MMR vaccine: one in seven five-year-olds in England may not be immunised

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Public Health England issues warning as UK loses measles-free status and PM pledges action on social media firms

One in seven five-year-olds may not be up to date with their MMR immunisation, Public Health England has warned, rising to one in four in London.

 

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Anti-vaxxers building the framework for a human culling. Whoo hoo!!

Whenever one is injected with any drug, there is always a risk. It’s quite simple really. Usually the benefits outweigh the risk.

Recently read about this in SmithsonianMag .. Despite Benjamin Franklin being a proponent of the small pox inoculation in Colonial America, his four-year-old son Franky was never inoculated (possibly because of objections from Benjamin’s wife) and died of the disease.

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