Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
More than 60 children infected in north London measles outbreak
It was a real shock to read this in the papers this morning - happening a bus ride up Green Lanes. Enfield has one of the lowest measles vaccination rates amongst five year old in the country.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/14/more-than-60-childr...
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Permalink Reply by Oli Brown
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Cases have been reported in Haringey as well...
London is losing its herd immunity to a number of preventable diseases like measles, whooping cough etc. This is partly due to declining uptake resulting from misinformation but also because adults who haven't been immunised in their countries of origin are moving here is such numbers and then having a lot of children. One would expect to see diseases like TB returning in boroughs like Tower Hamlets and Brent, for instance, and for obvious reasons, but I do wonder why Enfield is particularly problematic though. In most other respects its one of the better boroughs in London.
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MMR uptake for under 5s
Haringey 63.9%Kensington and Chelsea 64.3%
Enfield 65.9%
Tower Hamlets 74.3%
Brent 75.4%
It's no coincidence how regularly facts undermine racist arguments.
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Permalink Reply by Cynthia Brown
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Bell curve.
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All of them
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You're getting confused between innoculatuon and infection rates.
If you're saying MMR uptake rates in Enfield are not low, then your argument is with Michael Anderson and the Guardian article he has provided. You might need to find some sources otherwise Alan S will be upset.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson
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The most important message is that if your kids’ vaccinations are not up to date get them done. One of the advantages (?) of being born in the fifties was seeing first hand what the impact of diseases like measles was. A cousin, who was the same age as me, was left severely brain damaged after contracting measles at 3 years old and died before her 6th birthday. My older sister was hospitalised with diphtheria and it was touch and go if she would survive. I think some people now, because they haven’t actually seen them, think childhood illnesses like these were a walk in the park. They absolutely weren’t.
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Permalink Reply by JulieB
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Yes, I think calling them 'childhood illnesses' makes it sound like they're not dangerous. I was lucky to be born in the late 1960s and vaccinations were wide spread and saving many lives.
It's terrible that we've gone backwards, lost herd immunity, and these horrible diseases are coming back.
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