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Ross Lydall

Children in Hackney ‘at most risk’ of measles outbreak due to lowest jab rate

A vaccine dose is prepared (Nick Potts/PA)

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Hackney has been named as the London borough where young children are most at risk of a measles outbreak.

Only 60.1 per cent of five-year-olds in Hackney have had both doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, according to the UK Health Security Agency.

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