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benjitsu ago

Did they have the lowest before the ban?

Men13 ago

Not only that, this resulted ina lot of measles outbreaks:

However, [Dr Hiroki Nakatani, director of the Infectious Disease Division at Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare] admitted the MMR scare has left its mark. With vaccination rates low, there have been measles outbreaks which have claimed 94 lives in the last five years. [Before 2001]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-17509/Why-Japan-banned-MMR-vaccine.html