The counciul's health boss says MMR vaccination uptake is keeping people safe from measles
Blackpool children have been protected from a serious illness which can have lifelong consequences thanks to a successful town-wide vaccination programme. Dr Arif Rajpura, director of public health at Blackpool Council, told a meeting there have been no cases of measles in the borough thanks to MMR vaccination uptake reaching levels of 95 per cent which is in line with World Health Organisation targets.
In order to catch up, the public health team had commissioned a service to target children aged between five and 18 and in some cases had even visited their homes to ensure they received their MMR dose. But Dr Rajpura warned there was ‘vaccine fatigue’ when it came to other illnesses, with fewer people having taken up the flu or Covid vaccination this winter.
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