BBCNEWS The Travel Show July 14, 2024
The health secretary, matt hancock, says he wont rule out bold action to protect children, after new figures show a fall in the take up of all routine vaccinations, for the under fives in england, in the last year. Coverage of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination, or mmr, are also down, for the fifth year in a row. Our Health Editor hugh pym has more details. Vaccines work best when 95 of children have them, which stops the disease spreading. But that isnt the case just now in england with mmr. There wasnt a care in the world for these youngsters at a play centre this afternoon, but for ...