Disease: a warning from history

Health Serv J. 2008 Apr 17:22-4.

Abstract

Syphilis cases in the UK have risen from 301 in 1997 to 3,702 in 2006. After the autism scare of 1998, uptake of both doses of the MMR vaccine fell to 80 percent. Blackburn with Darwen PCT spent pound160,000 on vitamins after seeing a case of rickets every week.

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Communicable Disease Control*
  • Disease Outbreaks*
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • Humans
  • Measles / drug therapy
  • Measles / epidemiology*
  • Public Health / history*
  • Rickets / drug therapy
  • Rickets / epidemiology*
  • State Medicine
  • Syphilis / drug therapy
  • Syphilis / epidemiology*
  • Tuberculosis / drug therapy
  • Tuberculosis / epidemiology*
  • United Kingdom / epidemiology