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5th April 2018
02:01pm BST

"Almost two thirds of cases are aged between 15 and 40 years demonstrating that measles is not just an illness of childhood," a spokesperson for the HSE told The Limerick Leader.
"Half of the cases have been hospitalised."
Measles can spread rapidly, the Mid West Community Health team said last month.
One person with the disease can infect 90 per cent of the people around them who have not been immunised.
The HSE has once again urged members of the public under the age of 40 to ensure that they are vaccinated against measles by getting the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) shot.
The vaccine is being made available free from GPs for the duration of the outbreak.
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