Children should be banned from going to school unless they are vaccinated against measles, experts have said. Researchers said the UK should consider making vaccination compulsory for children before they start school. Existing research shows that 92.5 per cent of a population must be vaccinated against measles to protect the wider population through ‘herd immunity’. It called for the Government to introduce a policy of compulsory measles vaccination in the future. Many parents refused to have their children vaccinated after British gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield claimed in 1998 that it could cause autism.

Source: Daily Mail May 16, 2019 23:12 UTC