A 13-month-old boy whose parents were unduly influenced by anti-vaccine information on social media ended up in intensive care at University Hospital Galway (UHG) with a preventable illness.

The latest weekly report from the HSE has found there's been 593 cases of mumps so far.

The HSE has urged adults under 40 to get themselves vaccinated against measles as the highly infectious disease spreads across the country.

As many as 62 measles cases have been notified to health authorities in the first three months of the year, a 6,000% increase compared to a single case for the same period last year.

Only two of the 20 people infected with measles following an outbreak in Limerick city were vaccinated against the disease.

The number of cases of measles in Limerick has jumped to 20 since the start of the new year, including one linked case in Dublin.

The HSE has warned of likely further undiagnosed measles cases in Limerick city because one of the cases in the current outbreak has no obvious link to the other 12. 

A measles outbreak in Limerick — where the number of confirmed cases has risen to 13 — was imported from the Middle East where a patient had travelled over the Christmas period.

The HSE is to offer free doses of the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine, after confirming six new cases in Limerick city today, bringing to 10 the total number of cases in the city since January 3.

Two cases of measles have been identified in north Dublin, the HSE has said.

Complacency on vaccines could lead to deaths here as a measles outbreak sweeps across Europe.

A national measles outbreak that left 40 people infected, half of whom were hospitalised, has been declared over.

A public health warning has been issued after it was confirmed an adult with measles visited a number of locations in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, and in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, in recent weeks.

Irish parents are sending children to a clinic in Bulgaria for dangerous treatments that “cure” autism.

The HSE has warned of a measles outbreak in various parts of the country and which is particularly affecting those who had not received the MMR vaccine.

There has been a major outbreak of mumps in Ireland over the past 12 months with almost 2,000 cases of the highly infectious disease having been notified to the health authorities.

While nearly all health professionals deny a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, rates of measles are rising in the US and the author of the discredited study is unapolegitic, writes Stav Ziv

Teenagers and young adults are being encouraged by the HSE to get fully vaccinated against mumps as cases of the illness continue to increase.

House prices in the UK have leapt by 11.1% over the last year in the strongest annual growth seen since June 2007, building society Nationwide has reported.

A measles alert was issued yesterday after two Galway students were found to have the highly contagious disease. Measles can cause serious complications, especially in children.

Health Minister James Reilly has warned that Ireland is at a greater risk of measles because of an epidemic in Wales.

Parents are being urged to ensure children are properly vaccinated after an outbreak of measles in the Cork area.

Health authorities are to roll out a national measles vaccination campaign following a serious outbreak of the potentially fatal disease in West Cork.

The HSE has urged parents to vaccinate their children after the number affected by a measles outbreak in West Cork rose to 51.

The number of confirmed measles cases in the West Cork outbreak has risen to 31, with fears that younger children are now at risk.

Parents have been advised to withdraw unvaccinated children from a West Cork school following a major outbreak of the highly contagious measles disease.

One of the doctors struck off over the MMR jab controversy in the UK asked the High Court today to rule his treatment “unfair and unjust”.

I made a gain on the disposal of a property in July of this year, I am wondering when I need to pay the capital gains tax which is due on it.

IN SPITE of being a local Fianna Fáil heavyweight since the 1980s, Batt O’Keeffe’s chances of taking a seat in Cork North West this time round were looking particularly precarious.

I FIND disturbing the publicity given by your letters column (August 25) to an organisation calling itself ‘Mothers Alliance Ireland’ and websites trying to use scare tactics against the HPV vaccines.

ANDREW WAKEFIELD, now struck off the medical register in Britain because of his dangerous campaign falsely to link the MMR vaccine to autism, is a lucky man that being disbarred from practice is all that has happened to him. Why are there no laws in Britain to prosecute charlatans like him when their lies damage the public health and become common currency worldwide?

A “DISHONEST” doctor at the centre of an MMR row will be struck off the medical register, the General Medical Council (GMC) ruled yesterday.

The doctor who claimed the MMR vaccine could cause autism in children is planning to appeal against his ban from practicing in the UK.

The doctor at the centre of the MMR row was today struck off the medical register in the UK.

WITH tousled brown hair and sporting a check shirt, Dr Andrew Wakefield, 52, cuts an unassuming figure. It is hard to imagine that he almost single-handedly sparked one of the world’s biggest health scares.

Meningitis Ireland has expressed concern about the large number of mumps cases detected since the beginning of the year.

An American court today ruled that there was no proven link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

DESPITE a rise in the uptake of the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), the number of mumps cases exceeded 1,300 at the end of 2008 — more than nine times the number reported in 2007.

Health experts today warned young people to be extra vigilant of the potentially life-threatening meningitis virus which can kill a healthy person within hours.

THERE has been a five-fold increase in the number of mumps cases reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre so far this year, new figures show.

RESEARCH by experts from all over the world further debunked any link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

New research by experts from all over the world further debunked any link between the MMR vaccine and autism, it was reported today.

Students were today warned to get MMR jabs as surging levels of mumps strike college campuses across the country.