In 2017, Measles was declared to be officially eliminated in the UK. Getting rid of a disease which killed 7,000 people a year just a century before was a major public health triumph.
Since Covid, cases of Measles have been back on the rise. Conversely, vaccination rates have been in decline for a decade, but these really dropped after the pandemic.
In Leicester, where four cases were confirmed this week, vaccination rates have fallen from 93% to 79.2% since 2012/13 – a decline which Rob Howard, Director of Public Health at Leicester City Council, puts down to apathy.
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