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By Susie Beever & Richard Ault The UK hotspot for the outbreak of a Victorian disease affecting British children has been revealed, with hundreds of youngsters affected. Nearly a thousand cases of measles have now been reported in the first few weeks of the year, in what is the highest number of suspected cases in the same period for more than a decade. It comes after the World Health Organisation declared the potentially deadly illness eliminated in the UK in 2017. But as uptake for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) drops to its lowest in a decade, the disease has been on the incre…

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