In May 2010 in a study involving 275 children vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, who demonstrated regressive autism and bowel disease, the Wake Forest University School of Medicine reported that of the 82 so far tested 70 proved positive for measles virus all of which was the vaccine measles strain none were wild measles strains.

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There is now a huge cohort of children who are not protected and this has allowed the measles virus to circulate - often infecting babies who are too young to have had the MMR vaccine.

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Twenty years after the global outbreak of AIDS, no one has developed an effective vaccine against the HIV virus, a far more cunning foe than polio, smallpox or measles.

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