Victoria’s chief medical officer Dr Tarun Weeramanthri issued an alarming alert over the weekend, about an increase in measles cases in greater Melbourne. The number of cases “is increasing” and those with the virus have been “infectious while in public settings” in the city and Gippsland.
Keeping measles in check has got a lot harder recently because all sorts of people are spurning science and deciding not to get themselves, or children, vaccinated. The free measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has been swept up in fretting around the safety of vaccines. In Australia since the pandemic, measles vaccine coverage has fallen below the national 95 per cent target.
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