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Public Health HSE Mid West is calling on young Clare people, as well as people from Limerick and North Tipperary to know their MMR status and to ask their parents or check with their GPs, or their Local Immunisation Office if they have missed out on their MMR vaccines as children. The HSE Mid West vaccination team have been providing free, walk-in (no appointment) MMR vaccine clinics at higher education campuses this month. Following widespread measles outbreaks across Ireland, the UK, and Europe this year, the Mid West has experienced its highest number of measles cases since 2018, with a recent outbreak in Clare, linked to other areas, involving up to 16 cases – the largest among recent outbreaks. Across Ireland young adults aged between 15 and 24 years of age account for a significant proportion of confirmed measles cases. For young people who have not received their MMR vaccines – dose one at 12 months, dose two in junior …
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