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Fears of measles outbreak in Hong Kong prompt call for vaccines to be provided to private doctors

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The city’s largest doctors’ group, the Hong Kong Medical Association, has urged the government to provide measles vaccines to private clinics amid concerns among the public that an outbreak of the highly contagious virus could occur locally as has happened in Taiwan and Okinawa, Japan. But health authorities and the Medical Association said on Monday that it was unlikely the city would see an outbreak as 90 per cent of the population have been vaccinated either with the single...

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