Our little girl will be getting her MMR when that time comes round. People forget how devastating measles, mumps and rubella can be as it's so rare these days.
The combined jab is no more or less effective than single jabs but the big advantages are less visits to the vaccination clinic, its safety and, let's be honest, it's cheaper. Given the efficacy and safety of the MMR jab as well as the price, I think the government is going to stick with it for clinical as much as financial reasons. If people really want the single jabs that much, why not go private?
Regardless of what certain newspapers say, the report which first cast doubts was discredited as the person who wrote it was being paid by people with an interest in bringing back the single jabs. Would you trust a paper from a scientist paid by the cigarette industry that said smoking was safe? Also, the paper did not find a link between autism and MMR. The writer of the paper said this after the paper was published.
MMR is without doubt the best possible protection you can get against three killer diseases.
Phew, don't start immunologists on the MMR controvery... :-)
