A REDNAL woman who campaigned for the victims of vaccine damage has defended the controversial combined jab for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR).
Chairman of the Vaccine Victims Support Group Olivia Price, of Malcolm Grove, said MMR was a fashionable cause but single vaccines had also left children and adults damaged.
Mrs Price, whose daughter Melissa was left seriously disabled by a whooping cough vaccination, instead called for more effort to be put into developing a test to discover if a child's immune system was vulnerable.
She said: "Every time there is a story in the papers, the phone doesn't stop ringing with people who think their children have been damaged by MMR.
"I sincerely believe that children have been damaged by MMR, but we know people who have been damaged by single vaccines too.
"We should vaccinate when it is safe to vaccinate, and make sure the casualties of vaccination are looked after."
Mrs Price's struggle for compensation to ensure her daughter and 900 others can be supported is featured on Midlands Report on BBC2 tomorrow at 7.30pm.
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