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A growing number of parents are confused about whether to vaccinate their children, with many influenced by "anti-vax" material on social media. Can asking experts questions help one undecided couple find clarity?
"We're undecided but are swaying towards not getting the baby vaccinated," Mark tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
He and his wife, Victoria, are expecting their first child in August but he is stepfather to her two teenage children, who are both vaccinated.
Experts say the MMR vaccine is safe and has been given to millions of children worldwide.
But NHS England fears "vaccination deniers" are gaining traction on social media, with half of parents with young children being exposed to anti-vaccination content.
Mark and Victoria say they have been researching the topic mostly online.
"People tend to take things at face value," he says. "You've got a professional who says something and you take that as being [true].
"But it's good to do your own research and go out there and question the questions or question the answers, no matter where it's coming from."
They are not alone.
Figures from data company SEMrush, seen by the programme, show a 296% increase in searches about the measles, mumps, and rubella virus (MMR) vaccine in the past 12 months in the UK, while the search term "anti-vaccine" has increased by 171%.
The number of two-year-olds having the MMR vaccine in England is at its lowest in eight years, with 91.2% vaccinated last year.
In 2018, there were 966 confirmed measles cases in England, nearly four times as many as the total number confirmed the previous year.
'Injecting aluminium'
Victoria and Mark met Prof Beate Kampmann, director of the Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, to ask her about one of their prime concerns.
"Why do you think it's acceptable to inject aluminium into babies when it's being banned in things such as aerosols?" asks Mark.
Prof Kampmann says many people are concerned about the extra ingredients in vaccines.
"Alum is a very important part of the vaccines because it actually helps the stuff that's really important in the vaccine, which is the bacterial viral ingredients, to work well in the body," she says.
"You make it sound like we're giving a massive shot of aluminium to the body… – that's not at all the case.
"The concentration is only a 1,000th of what you'd find in the natural environment and what we already have in our bodies."
Mark says the information leaflets in vaccine packaging are not always offered to parents before injections. And some he and Victoria have seen say they should not be administered if the child is allergic – but how would parents know?
Prof Kampmann says the main allergy concern is some vaccines, such as MMR, contain traces of egg.
"You know if you have a demonstrated egg allergy," she says.
"You should be pointing that out.
"And by the time the baby gets that particular vaccine, you would know if they did… or not because they would have had egg in all sorts of products."
Financial targets
Dr Julian Spinks, of Court View medical practice, in Rochester, addresses another of the couple's concerns – why GP surgeries are paid for each vaccination.
"We're just wondering whether GPs are pressurised to meet targets for financial gain?" Mark says.
Dr Spinks says they do have some targets but the money involved is relatively small.
"The amount of money we get for a vaccine is about £10," he says.
"By the time you've covered the costs we have, which is recording people, paying for nurses and people and so on, well over half of that is gone.
"So actually, realistically, it's a very small amount of money we get."
Optional not compulsory
Mark and Victoria are also worried the NHS may be too quick to offer vaccinations – without fully explaining potential risks.
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