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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a physician and I was living in London at the same time as the author. My son was born in 2012 and because of the prevalence of measles in the uk and europe, and because we were planning to visit Eastern Europe, I asked our ped to vaccinate him at 5 months.

Since we were expats with a benefits package that included private healthcare, our ped was not part of NHS. I’m not sure if NHS allows for early vaccination. We also had the kids vaccinated for chicken pox, which was not routinely given at the time, but I believe it is a routine vaccination this year.

If you have, or know anyone with children not yet old enough for MMR, let them know that they can ask their ped about early vaccination if they are concerned about exposure. The early dose does not replace any part of the regular schedule, so they will need to make sure understand how to complete the series.[/quote]

Mind boggling that NHS only introduced the varicella vaccine (via mmrv) as routine this year.[/quote]

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