Measles outbreak: number of cases passes 1,000 in Swansea area

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/30/measles-outbreak-number-cases-swansea


Alex Powell, 20, gets an MMR vaccine at a drop-in clinic at Neath Port Talbot hospital near Swansea. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images

The number of measles cases in a region battling an epidemic has passed 1,000 as major efforts continue to vaccinate the unprotected.

Measles cases in the greater Swansea area, in south Wales, have reached 1,011 with the 10 to 18 age group hardest hit.

An urgent programme to vaccinate children, teenagers and young adults has led to a substantial drop in the numbers unprotected. The headline total announced on Tuesday is the number of measles cases recorded in the region since the outbreak began at the start of November 2012.

Public Health Wales (PHW) held up the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg (ABM) health board as an example of how to respond to the epidemic. But it also warned that with 50,000 people across Wales without measles protection, vaccination efforts needed to be widened.

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1. 50,000 people without protection...

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2. right? nt

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3. Thank you paranoid anti-vax, anti-science idiots.

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4. If the disgraced and discredited Wakefield hadn't moved to the US

I think he would be facing getting lynched over there.

He needs to recant publicly and the sooner the better.

He won't, of course, his massive ego will not allow it. He'll just keep spreading his poison until we have an equivalent problem in the US.