MMR: Parents in Kent urged to make sure children are vaccinated

This is below the 95% recommendation from the WHO.

Children need both doses of the vaccine, external to be fully protected.

Kent County Council’s director of public health, Dr Anjan Ghosh, said vaccination rates needed to increase “if we are to prevent a measles outbreak”.

“One in five children who catch measles need hospital care and, on rare occasions, it can claim lives – yet two doses of MMR gives life-long protection,” he said.

Vaccinations can be administered through GP practices, school vaccination programmes or one of Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust’s community clinics.