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Europe on alert as UK investigates mysterious cases of severe hepatitis in young children

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the EU’s health agency have issued warnings to other countries to be on the alert following a mysterious spike in cases of severe liver disease in children in the UK. The UK’s...

18 April, 2022

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MMR boycott has left two million children at risk of measles

Two million children risk catching measles as a result of the MMR scare, doctors warned yesterday. They said the outbreak in Wales could spread to London, where nearly half of the capital’s children are not vaccinated...

26 April, 2013

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Government rejects measles outbreak ‘blame’

Claims the outbreak of measles in south Wales was down to Department of Health policy in the 1990s is “completely incorrect”, the government has said. Vaccination rates fell after Dr Andrew Wakefield’s...

16 April, 2013

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New SARS-like virus shows person-to-person transmission

A third patient in Britain has contracted a new SARS-like virus, becoming the second confirmed British case in a week and showing the deadly infection is being spread from person to person, health officials said on...

14 February, 2013

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