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Since the start of the pandemic, there has been a significant drop in the number of parents and carers getting their children vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), and other childhood vaccines.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, more than one in ten eligible children under the age of five in England haven’t had their MMR vaccine, or are only partially vaccinated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Measles is very contagious and can be quite unpleasant. For some, it can even lead to serious complications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concern is that even a small decline in uptake of the MMR vaccination could lead to a rise in cases. And as international travel resumes, there’s more chance for measles to be brought in from other countries where it’s more common. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaccinations remain the best defence against infection. Children require two doses of the MMR vaccination so it’s very important that children attend their routine vaccination appointments.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If any have been missed for any reasons, GP surgeries can be contacted to book a vaccine appointment. It\u2019s never too late to catch up.  You can read more about the MMR vaccine and why it\u2019s important<\/a> online. And you can see the NHS vaccination schedule.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":54957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-social-care"],"acf":[],"featured_image":{"ID":54957,"title":"MMR jab advert","alt":"NHS advert to promote the MMR jab","description":"","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","width":582,"height":320,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert-400x270.jpg","thumbnail_width":400,"thumbnail_height":270,"medium":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","medium_width":582,"medium_height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","medium_large_width":582,"medium_large_height":320,"large":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","large_width":582,"large_height":320,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","1536x1536_width":582,"1536x1536_height":320,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","2048x2048_width":582,"2048x2048_height":320,"thumbnail_featured":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","thumbnail_featured_width":582,"thumbnail_featured_height":320,"thumbnail_sidebar":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert-200x135.jpg","thumbnail_sidebar_width":200,"thumbnail_sidebar_height":135,"banner-block":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","banner-block_width":440,"banner-block_height":242,"small-banner":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","small-banner_width":582,"small-banner_height":320,"medium-banner":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","medium-banner_width":582,"medium-banner_height":320,"small-thumb":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","small-thumb_width":582,"small-thumb_height":320,"medium-thumb":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","medium-thumb_width":320,"medium-thumb_height":176,"large-thumb":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","large-thumb_width":420,"large-thumb_height":231,"slideshow-preview":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","slideshow-preview_width":300,"slideshow-preview_height":165,"slideshow":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2022\/02\/MMR-jab-advert.jpg","slideshow_width":582,"slideshow_height":320}},"category_priority":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2028-06-24 18:32:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54958,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54956\/revisions\/54958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}