The Measles Control Campaign and immunisation adverse events.

The Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services has announced that the ‘Measles Control Campaign’ will be launched on 9 July 1998. Between August and November 1998, in a school-based program, all children in primary schools throughout Australia will be offered an additional dose of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, irrespective of their prior vaccination history. Parents of preschool-aged children who do not have a MMR vaccination recorded on the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) will receive a letter from the Register urging them to have their child vaccinated, and parents of high school students will be similarly advised to ensure that their children have had at least two doses of MMR.