Measles Outbreaks in a Population with Declining Vaccine Uptake
@article{Jansen2003MeaslesOI,
title={Measles Outbreaks in a Population with Declining Vaccine Uptake},
author={Vincent A. A. Jansen and Nico Stollenwerk and Harold James Jensen and Mary E Ramsay and W. John Edmunds and Christopher J. Rhodes},
journal={Science},
year={2003},
volume={301},
pages={804 - 804}
}Measles is a highly infectious and potentially dangerous disease. Before mass vaccination was started in the United Kingdom, measles caused an average of 100 deaths per year ( [1][1] ). Since the introduction of vaccination, vaccine uptake has risen from around 50% in 1968 to 76% in 1988. After the
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