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BMJ | 8 SepteMBer 2007 | VoluMe 335 Zosia Kmietowicz london The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the United Kingdom’s fertility watchdog, will decide this week whether to approve in principle the use of hybrid animal-human embryos for research. Results of a public consultation on the matter, which were released before the authority’s decisive meeting that was due to be held on Wednesday 5 September, indicate a widespread lack of understanding among the public on the need and worth of creating hybrid embryos. However, supPublic support for hybrid embryos rises, poll shows Roger Dobson ABergAVenny Parents are being urged to have their children fully immunised with the combined vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) before school starts this month, after warnings that cases of measles are rising. The latest figures from the Health Protection Agency show 480 confirmed cases of measles in the United Kingdom so far this year, compared with a provisional total of 756 cases for the whole of last news