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Cabinet to discuss new vaccination programme against measles

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Cabinet to discuss new vaccination programme against measles

Cabinet is to discuss a new vaccination programme against measles - amid fears of a potential outbreak here.

 

Vaccination rates for MMR have fallen below 95 percent which is the recommended figure.

 

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Around a fifth of men aged 18 or 19 are unvaccinated.

 

Donegal-based GP Dr Denis McCauley says a now-discredited study linking the vaccine to autism could have been the cause of that: