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    Measles: UK on a ‘trajectory for everything getting much worse’

    by Jane Kirby Jan 19, 2024 5 minutes
    Source: PA Wire

    The UK is on a “trajectory for everything getting much worse” when it comes to measles spreading, the head of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned.

    Professor Dame Jenny Harries told the PA news agency that “concerted action” is needed to tackle the virus as she visited a measles blackspot in the West Midlands.

    During her visit to Birmingham’s UKHSA laboratory at Heartlands Hospital on Friday, Dame Jenny said: “That’s one of the reasons why I have come to Birmingham today, because I know there is huge effort by local partners to try and contain the spread of measles but it is highly contagious, it is one of the most contagious respiratory virus diseases that we deal with routinely.

    “We need to build

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