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<p><font size="1">Camden and Islington Health Authority have warned
that failure to have children immunized with the MMR jab has led
to a 700% increase in measles in the two boroughs this year. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Many parents are now refusing to allow their children
to have the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination because of fears
that it may be linked to autism. Up to 40% of children in the boroughs
are now unprotected from the diseases which can be fatal in some
cases. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Doctors now fear that there could be a measles epidemic
and the health authority is to write to every parent whose children
are not immunized to warn them of the potential dangers. In 2001
only 73.5 % of two-year-old children were immunized while the health
authority's target is 95%. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Dr Andrew Wakefield, former consultant gastroenterologist
at the Royal Free Hospital, in Pond Street, Hampstead, has been
blamed for the increasingly low uptake of MMR. He published the
results of research which seemed to indicate a link between the
vaccine and the onset of autism in some children. But other doctors
have rejected his findings and have insisted that not being immunised
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<p><font size="1"> An inquest into the death last October of Regent's
Park Zoo elephant handler Jim Robson was told last week that the
keeper should not have been in the elephants' compound alone. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Mr Robson of Fleet Road, Hampstead was killed when
Mya, a 3.8 tonne Asian elephant that he had known for thirteen years
wrapped her trunk around his legs and stamped on his head. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Lee Sambrook, who now looks after Mya at Whipsnade
Zoo said that he believed there should always have been two keepers
in the elephants' enclosure. London Zoo manager Bill James denied
that safety had been overlooked at the zoo. </font><font size="1">An
investigation of the incident by health and safety officers from
Westminster Council continues. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">After the tragedy, all three of the London Zoo elephants
were transferred to Whipsnade in Bedforshire. At the time, London
Zoo denied that it was because of Mr Robson's death and said the
move was made to give the animals better living conditions. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Mr Robson' skull was fractured and he died at Hampstead's
Royal Free Hospital. Coroner Dr Paul Knapman recorded a verdict
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<p><font size="1"> A Camden woman has appeared at the Old Bailey charged
with killing her two year-old daughter. Louise O'Shaughnessy, 39,
who lives in Camden Town's Maiden Lane Estate, appeared in court
last week to face charges of manslaughter, administering poison
and child cruelty. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">O'Shaughnessy's daughter Jasmine died after swallowing
methadone, which is prescribed to heroin addicts, last April. The
child would have been three only a few weeks after she died. </font></p>
<p><font size="1">Evidence is said to suggest that the child may have
been exposed to methadone for up to a year before her death. </font></p>
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