Measles is on the march again – but scare tactics won’t improve vaccination rates | Andre Spicer

Heavy-handed warnings do little to persuade hesitant parents to have their children immunised. Luckily, there are other ways

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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