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Decline in Island children having both doses of MMR vaccine 

Public Health Director has 'small concern' over cases in community

There’s been a dip in the number of children getting both doses of the MMR vaccine on the Isle of Man.

Data shows 78 per cent of three and four-year-olds have had their second jab; 92 per cent of one-year-olds have had the first dose.

Concerns have been raised in the UK about a possible measles outbreak given the low uptake of the vaccine there.

Professor Hugo Van Woerden is the director of public health:

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