Containing a measles outbreak has become almost impossible. Now what? 

iStock.com/_jure

By Emma Wilkinson

With vaccination levels well below those needed for herd immunity, outbreaks are lasting longer and becoming far more dangerous – and not just for the most vulnerable. Doctors.net.uk examines the efforts to turn the tide.

Official figures report 104 cases of laboratory confirmed measles in London in the first two months of this year.