Professor Helen Bedford (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) writes in The Conversation how, though measles was eliminated in the US, low vaccination rates since Covid have led to an outbreak in Texas, and vaccination rates in England are likewise too low. Measles is one of the most challenging diseases to control. It requires a sustained uptake of well over 90% of two doses of a measles-containing vaccine such as MMR . But since the COVID pandemic, there has been a decline in

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