SINA made a similar plea last November amid the controversy over the combined MMR jab. The Government's announcement last week sparked fresh warnings by health campaigners that a five-in-one jab could overload babies' immune systems.
Patricia McGinty, a director of SINA, said, 'It's far too onerous for us to be giving clear advice, because all the scientists are at loggerheads over it. Our position is the same as before.'
In England, the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) said that as a matter of good practice all day nurseries should keep up-to-date immunisation records for all children in their care and make parents aware that there may be other children in the nursery who have not had all their vaccinations, for whatever reason. An NDNA spokeswoman said, 'Nurseries should not disclose any information about the vaccination status of individual children and should not exclude children who have not had immunisations. It would be contrary to equal opportunities to exclude children on this basis.'
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