The disease had a significant outbreak in the UK last year; it began in the West Midlands and has since spread to all parts of the nation.
In 2023, there were 321,582 cases globally, representing an 88% rise from the 171,153 instances that were reported in the year prior.
Walsall resident Davina Barrett has now stated that the illness that her son Ezra, who was three months old at the time, had was “awful,” and that the family “were so shocked at how bad [he] got quite quickly.”
She made the following plea for parents to vaccinate their children:
but that a newborn like Ezra, who is too young to have his own protection, might be spared from death by the MMR [measles, mumps, and rubella] vaccination.
It coincides with a new six-week campaign by NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) advising parents to vaccinate their children against “easily preventable” diseases.
Concerned that vaccination rates for the MMR vaccine are still too low in some parts of England, officials are concentrating on cases of measles, whooping cough, meningitis, diphtheria, and polio.
