Why the UK needs to eliminate measles … again

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the UK had successfully eliminated measles from its shores. But the country has since lost that status and cases of the infectious disease are rising rapidly in some areas. Nicola Davis reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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1:13.2	It might start like any cold. You've got a temperature, your nose is running, and you're a bit achy.
1:29.0	But a few days later, a rash starts to develop on your skin.
1:34.3	Red-brown spots that might blur into bigger blotches,
1:38.5	usually spreading from your face down your body,
1:41.6	and it can get much worse.
1:45.0	Her eyes started to swell up and the rash sort of develop and then it was really, really visible that she was very sick.
1:55.0	I thought we wouldn't get through it. That's the truth.
2:00.0	She was delirious. Her body was covered in the rash which you couldn't touch your skin.
2:08.0	I was very unwell when I was taken into Hartlands. I don't remember the journey to hospital. The rash was horrendous. The temperature
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