Anyone born after 1979 should get MMR vaccine, says doctor

The HSE is advising anyone born after 1979 to get the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) to combat the sharp rise in mumps cases.

Dr Suzanne Cotter, public health specialist at the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre told Newstalk Breakfast that while a free dose of the MMR vaccine is being offered to anyone between the ages of 11 and 30 as part of a HSE initiative to counter the sharp rise in mumps cases, people of any age can contract the illness.