Welcome Back to the Dark Ages, Thanks to Anti-Vaxers
Thanks in part to the kooks on both the right and the left who are promoting anti-vaccination insanity (people like Jenny McCarthy and publications like World Net Daily), diseases long thought eradicated are making a big comeback in London.
London is suffering a startling rise in diseases associated with Victorian times, official figures reveal today.
Rare infectious illnesses including typhoid, whooping cough and scarlet fever have soared by 166 per cent in the past two years, with the number of cases of mumps - a disease is easily prevented with vaccine - rising from 125 in 2007 to 393 last year - an increase of 214 per cent.
Justine Greening, the shadow minister for London, said infection rates in the capital are markedly higher than the national averages.
The rise could be a result of parents refusing the MMR jab after now-debunked claims in 2001 that it might be linked to autism.
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