The World Health Organisation has issued a stark warning that the UK could face a measles "epidemic" as vaccination rates drop among children.
Since 2019, the percentage of children under the age of two receiving the first dose of the MMR vaccine fell to 90 per cent - a five point drop since the start of the pandemic. The percentage of children receiving the full two-dose vaccine fell to 85 per cent.
The MMR jab, which vaccinates against measles, mumps and rubella, has been around for five decades but has seen a recent fall in uptake with the rise of vaccine scepticism. The first dose of the vaccine is usually given to one-year-old infants, with the second administered at three years and four months.
