Concerns over vaccine rates amid chickenpox rollout

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GP Dr Mousumi Mukherjee welcomed the rollout of the combined MMR and chickenpox vaccine but warned falling vaccination rates in the UK could undermine its success.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We've got very low uptake in some of the deprived areas of Britain for MMR, so we're combining this

00:08vaccine with the MMR. Already we have a low rate, so I just don't know how we can spread the word

00:15that these vaccines are protective. You know, we've seen recently outbreaks of measles, mumps,

00:20which we haven't seen for many, many years because the immunisation rate has dropped.

00:26Now, chickenpox is not as harmful as those illnesses, but if we're combining that vaccine

00:34with it, I'm not sure what the uptake will be. That's my concern.

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