MMR drama outrages UK doctors

Abstract

Several of the invited speakers reacted angrily to the film describing it as "grotesquely biased" and "full of outright lies". And according to George Kassianos, who was due to take part in the debate on behalf of the Royal College of General Practioners, it comes at a very bad time. "We are doing very well with winning back parents' confidence in MMR, immunisation rates are going up, and we are likely, at least in my area, to avoid a major outbreak of measles", he said. But the film is likely to undo a lot of this good work. "It will scare a lot of parents", he said.