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Measles vaccination numbers 'haven't dipped' in IoM

'Good news', says Public Health

The number of vaccinations against measles seems be holding up on the Island.

That's according to Public Health Isle of Man's Jacqui Dunn: (play audio)

She was speaking in the light of recent figures in the UK, which showed more than half a million children in the UK missed out on the vaccine between 2010 and 2017, according to the children's charity UNICEF.

There have been more than 110,000 cases of the disease worldwide in the first three months of 2019 - a rise of 300%.

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