Irish Examiner view: We need to keep vaccinating amid measles outbreaks

Worryingly, HSE data shows that MMR vaccine uptake among children aged 24 months was 87.6% — below the WHO target of 95% uptake required to prevent outbreaks

Ireland has earned its World Health Organization measles-free designation due to its assiduous vaccination campaign. Let's keep it that way. Stock picture: Alamy

Health authorities in England are struggling to contain a fast-spreading outbreak of measles, which has struck dozens of school-age children in one London borough. 

One in five of the children infected has required hospital treatment. None of those taken ill was fully immunised.