The ‘M’ word – What happened in 2019 and what should we do now?

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The ‘M’ word – What happened in 2019 and what should we do now?

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Vanessa Weenink

Vaccines graph measles 11 March 2020
Worldwide measles cases versus measles vaccine coverage (1980–2015)

VACCINES

While immunisation against measles is a global success story, outbreaks of the highly contagious virus continue to occur. This article discusses why measles has spread in certain communities and what we must do to ensure those at highest risk are fully protected

Mary Nowlan

Measles has long been recognised as life threatening – in 10th-century Persia, it was “more to be dreaded than smallpox”. And in 1846, its contagiousn