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Study finds widening inequalities in child vaccination rates across England
Vaccine uptake was found to be consistently lower among children in areas of higher deprivation, while the number of children susceptible to measles at age 5 increased 20-fold in the most deprived areas.
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War in Ukraine pushes highly contagious infectious diseases to alarming levels
New research being presented at this year’s ECCMID reveals an extremely worrying picture of rising infectious disease cases and falling levels of childhood vaccination and case detection in Kharkiv, the scene of some of the most intense combat in 2022.