Pop-up measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination clinics are to be set up in schools to reduce the “very real risk” of measles outbreaks across the country.
Parents of under-11s are being urged to book their children in for missed jabs, as officials work to stop a surge in cases in the west Midlands spreading nationally.
The so-called “Wakefield cohort” of young adults born between 1998 and 2004, many of whom missed out on vaccinations as children following Andrew Wakefield’s paper linking the vaccine to autism, will also be asked to come forward for jabs.
