23 cases of measles in Scotland
DOCTORS have recorded a rise in the number of people who have caught measles this year.
The 23 cases in Scotland this year so far, compared with 10 last year, is anomalous but not concerning, according to the Health Protection Scotland (HPS), which monitors and records infectious diseases. Rather than being a specific outbreak, it was made up of small clusters round the country.
HPS said numbers fluctuated each year because not everyone had taken up immunisation.
Nine people aged between 20-24 have caught measles so far this year a figure which is still relatively low.
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