The alarming number of kids in Greater Manchester who aren't protected against deadly diseases
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOne in five Greater Manchester children have not had their full childhood immunisations by the time they get to primary school, new figures show.
Health bosses say the trend of declining childhood vaccinations 'needs to be urgently reversed', with the ongoing measles outbreak serving as a 'reminder that these diseases have not gone away'.
In Greater Manchester, 83.5 per cent of children are fully protected by their 5th birthday, meaning one in five are not fully protected by the time they’ve started school.
Uptake levels of childhood vaccines offered through the routine NHS vaccination programme in England have been falling over the past decade across all vaccines, including whooping cough, measles, mumps and rubella, polio, meningitis and diphtheria.
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