BRITAIN’S health experts are bracing themselves for a major outbreak of an entirely preventable disease. Amid fears about the safety of the MMR three-in-one vaccine, parents are requesting shots of individual vaccines and finding the cupboard is bare. Clinics have had no fresh supplies of mumps vaccine for months.
In Australia, doctors recently had to stop immunising toddlers against deadly meningococcus C bacteria after they too ran out of vaccine. As for the US, a crisis over smallpox vaccine supplies was only averted when a drugs plant in Pennsylvania uncovered 90 million doses lying forgotten in its freezers. And for…
