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May 5
19m 51s

Measles, mumps and rubella vaccination

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About this episode

Measles, mumps and rubella are all serious illnesses. They are also all preventable.

Vaccination is safe and effective. But take up of the vaccine is not what it should be.

To find out more about this problem and what we can do about it, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Helen Bedford, Professor of Children's Health at the UCL Institute of Child Health.

For more on these infections, visit BMJ Best Practice.

Competing interests: None

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