Clinic to offer Irish parents single MMR vaccines

A PRIVATE British health clinic will offer Irish parents the choice of single measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines for their babies for €390 starting next January.

Health Choice UK Ltd has provided the single vaccines to 60,000 British babies since the first scare linking autism to the three-on-one MMR vaccine emerged over two years ago.

While scientists differ over the link between the MMR vaccine and autism, the levels of autism have increased dramatically in Britain and the US since it was introduced in the early 1980s, according to Health Choice UK director Kathryn Durnford.