Forcing parents to vaccinate their children isn't the way to solve this growing health crisis - Telegraph.co.uk

Should we be taking radical steps to make the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine mandatory? This has been advocated by senior members of the medical community and now the Health Secretary has said he's considering it. “I think there’s a very strong argument for movement to compulsory vaccination,” Matt Hancock has said, “and I think the public would back us.” 

It’s certainly tempting. Measles can be deadly for children – as well as causing pneumonia, deafness, epilepsy and brain damage. What’s more, it is preventable. The MMR vaccine was so successful that, based on data from 2014-2018, the UK was declared measles-free. No longer. A spike in measles cases caused the World Health Organisation...



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