Vaccination plea after baby’s ‘terrifying’ measles

Posted: 2nd September 2025

Source: County Durham mother’s vaccination plea after ‘terrifying’ measles – BBC News

Nowhere in the north-east of England and Cumbria has the childhood measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination rate of 95% needed to achieve the “herd immunity” at which point disease does not spread, latest figures show.

Middlesbrough has the lowest rate in the region at 82.5%, but up from 77.9% the previous year.

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