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Hi this is Jane Garvey and this is the Women's Our Parenting

Podcast which this week is about vaccinations. Measles cases in Europe have

triple between 2017 and 2018 and that's the highest number recorded this decade according to the

World Health Organization. In America two states are currently experiencing an

outbreak of measles. Helen Bedford is professor of children's health at

UCL, Great Orman Street Institute of Child Health, and Samantha Vanderslot

was on the program too, Social Sciences researcher at Oxford Vaccine Group. I talked first to Helen and

asked her why some people these days really are against vaccinations.

Most people get their children immunised that that's the first thing to say. But those who don't, it tends to be the big issue for parents is, are these vaccines safe? So safety of vaccines has always been prominent right since vaccination came in.

Some people are very vehement in their beliefs about vaccination

and they have no vaccinations for their children at all.

But actually that's a very small proportion.

It's only about 2%.

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