While coverage has been slipping since 2015, public health specialists say the speed and scale of the drop in 2024 is without precedent a collapse deepened by Javier Milei's sweeping austerity programme, which has slashed the national health budget and strained the outreach networks that once underpinned Argentina's vaccination successes. The decline is serious. Coverage continues to fall. It has never been this low,
Nowhere in the north-east of England and Cumbria has the childhood measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination rate of 95% needed to achieve the "herd immunity" at which point disease does not spread, latest figures show.