Fears of measles 'timebomb' as experts reveal half a MILLION British children have not been vaccinated because parents believe 'antivaxx' scare stories Between 2010 and 2017, 527,000 children did not receive life-saving jab Global surge in the disease is being fuelled by plummeting vaccination rates UK comes third in global ranking of number of unvaccinated children in high-income countries
By Daily Mail Reporter
Published: 23:54 BST, 24 April 2019 | Updated: 02:57 BST, 25 April 2019
35 shares
340
View
comments
Half a million children in the UK have not been vaccinated against measles amid a rise in online ‘antivaxx’ scare stories.
A global surge in the disease is being fuelled by plummeting vaccination rates, the charity Unicef has warned.
Between 2010 and 2017, 527,000 children in the UK did not receive the potentially life-saving jab – with ‘fake news’ on social media partly to blame.
Half a million children in the UK have not been vaccinated against measles amid a rise in
