Heavy-handed warnings do little to persuade hesitant parents to have their children immunised. Luckily, there are other ways
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In the past, hundreds of people died from measles each year. That all changed during the 1960s, when the government introduced a routine vaccination programme. By the 1990s there were only thousands of cases of measles each year, and very few deaths.
Just when it appeared the disease had been conquered, a scientific paper appeared linking the vaccine to autism. The now discredited paper received widespread coverage in the media, fuelling a resurgence of an anti-vaccination movement that had been popular in the 19th century.
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