UK: 2013 Measles cases

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Source: http://www.itv.com/news/london/updat...es-in-capital/

More measles cases in capital
Last updated Fri 7 Jun 2013


There have now been 103 confirmed cases of measles in London so far this year.

That's almost double to 52 cases of the disease which had been recorded by this point last year.

Experts now expect that the number of cases this year will exceed the total of 139 recorded last year...

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Schools issue measles alert

Friday, June 14, 2013

Hull Daily Mail
By Trudi Davidson

ALL East Riding schools have been asked by the director of public health to issue a measles alert to families.
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The number of cases in the East Riding is above the three-year average, with 17 cases in the past two months.
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Following serious outbreaks of measles in Wales, outbreaks are now occurring widely in England, with teenagers the most affected.

Read more:

http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/Schools-issue-measles-alert-outbreaks/story-19282901-detail/story.html#axzz2WCRKXkpf

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Measles virus hits borough
Published on the June 26, 2013

PARENTS are being warned to immunise their children as a UK-wide measles epidemic has reached South Tyneside.

Three children at St Joseph?s RC Comprehensive School in Mill Lane, Hebburn, plus one other child in the borough, have caught the virus.

The country was hit with record numbers of people taking ill since the epidemic broke out last September ? but until this month the borough had remained measles free...

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Source: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...during-4802699

By Robin Turner
Man who died during Swansea measles epidemic died as a result of the disease, inquest hears
1 Jul 2013 16:52

Gareth Colfer-Williams died from pneumonia after catching measles, an inquest into his death was told today

A man who died at the height of a measles epidemic in Swansea died as a result of the disease, an inquest in the city heard today.

Gareth Colfer-Williams, 25, was found dead by his girlfriend, Cairo Oneim, 27, on April 18 this year at his first floor flat in Port Tennant Road, Port Tennant, Swansea.

He suffered hallucinations in the hours before his death and was being treated for alcohol addiction.

The unemployed former Morriston Comprehensive School pupil died from Giant Cell Pneumonia due to measles, said Dr Maurizio Brotto, consultant pathologist at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, who carried out a post mortem examination...

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3 July 2013

Swansea measles epidemic officially over

The measles epidemic centred on the Swansea area has been declared officially over eight months after it began.

There have been no laboratory-confirmed cases linked to the outbreak area since 22 May, health officials said.

Since November, 1,219 measles cases were diagnosed and a campaign launched to boost the uptake of the MMR vaccine.

One person died and a total of 88 people visited a hospital due to measles during the outbreak.

Some 75,868 unscheduled measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations were given to people who had not been immunised in a bid to bring the epidemic under control.

GP surgeries, hospital and schools held drop-in sessions, with Public Health Wales particularly keen to target children and young people who may have missed their scheduled jabs.

BBC News

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Measles case continue to fall but Middlesbrough remains top of the table for towns affected

5:01pm Wednesday 10th July 2013 in News

THE rate that measles is spreading across the North East has started to decline, according to the latest figures.

Monthly data show 43 cases of the preventable, infectious disease were reported in May compared to 112 in April which suggests the rate of increase may be declining.

However, the latest data takes the North East total for 2013 at the end of May to 368, which compares to only two confirmed cases reported during the same period last year....

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Source: http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/...bled-1-2996020


Measles cases in Scotland nearly trebled
By LYNDSAY BUCKLAND
Published on 10/07/2013 14:45

Cases of measles in Scotland have almost trebled compared to last year, figures show.

? Measles figures in Scotland have risen by nearly treble over the last 12 months

? 121 reports of clinically suspected measles compared to 44 in same period last year

? Figures come as rise in measles cases in other areas are reported...

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Measles cases remain high despite recent drop
11 July 2013

The number of cases of measles in England in 2013 is the highest since 1994 despite a decline in numbers in May, according to latest figures.

Official statistics show there were 188 confirmed cases in May this year, down from 299 in April.

This brings the total cases so far in 2013 to 1,168, more than double the figure of 712 cases recorded over the same period last year...

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Measles: Hundreds of thousands still not vaccinated despite major campaign
11 Jul 2013 00:00
Some parents did not allow their children to have the vaccine due to an unfounded link with autism in the late 1990s

Hundreds of thousands of children have still not been vaccinated against measles despite a major campaign.

Health chiefs launched an unprecedented national drive in April for a million children to get the MMR jab amid fears of a measles epidemic.

They targeted 300,000 10 to 16-year-olds who were not vaccinated as babies and were thought to be at most risk of catching the disease.

But new figures published today suggest that while tens of thousands have since had their first jab, hundreds of thousands more still have not...

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Source: http://www.harlowstar.co.uk/Health/N...0711171531.htm


17:16 Thursday 11 July 2013 Written by SINEAD HOLLAND
Further cases of measles in Essex health areas

LATEST figures show more cases of measles have been confirmed in the health areas covering Essex.

In the Anglia and Essex zone there were a further six cases on top of 36 from January to April, which is higher than the total of 37 seen during all of 2012...

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Source: http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.u...0711123624.htm


12:36 Thursday 11 July 2013 Written by MARTIN FORD
Measles surge continues in Hertfordshire

A SURGE in measles cases in Hertfordshire has continued unabated according to the latest figures published today (Thursday July 11).

Four more cases were reported during May, bringing the total to 11 for the years so far.

In 2012 the were six cases reprted up to the end of May and 10 in total...

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Source: http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...measles_cases/


Concern over Lancashire measles cases
3:55pm Thursday 18th July 2013 in News

MEASLES outbreaks in Lancashire have already exceed the total number of cases for the whole of last year leading to calls for parents to immunise their children against the disease.

There have been 96 confirmed cases of measles since January, higher than the 92 cases recorded last year.

Lancashire County Council?s new campaign is aiming to make parents aware that one in 10 children are at risk of measles because they are not fully immunised...

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Breaking news: Risk of measles after outbreak in Glastonbury area
Monday, August 05, 2013

CENTRAL Somerset parents are being advised to get their children vaccinated against measles...

...Public Health advisers say they have received eleven new notifications of measles in children and young people aged from 10-24 in the area since July.

Those affected live in the Street and Glastonbury area and were all unvaccinated...

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Six new cases of Measles confirmed in Street and Glastonbury
Friday, August 09, 2013

Another six cases of measles have been confirmed in the Street and Glastonbury area.

A spokesman for Somerset County Council said that by 5pm on Thursday, a total of 16 people had contracted the virus...

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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-23630179


9 August 2013 Last updated at 07:33 ET
'Encouraging' fall in measles cases in north-east England

A fall in measles cases in the north-east of England is "encouraging", health officials have said.

The first six months of 2013 saw a big increase in measles, with 374 cases - up from two in the same period in 2012.

New figures show cases have dropped from 113 in April, to 46 in May and just two in June...