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Teenagers offered MMR vaccination

TEENAGERS in Lothian and the Highlands who missed out on the MMR jab as children will be offered the vaccine this month in a drive to increase protection in the wake of a surge in measles cases in Europe.

They are the latest health boards to announce plans to target those affected by panic following Dr Andrew Wakefeld's now discredited 1997 Lancet paper, which claimed a link between the MMR jab and autism.

It comes after NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed it would be distributing letters to pupils in S2-S6 this week, inviting parents of children never immunised against measles, mumps and rubella, or who only received one dose of the two-step jab, to consent to it second time around.