Claim: The UK has lost its measles free status just three years after the virus was eliminated.
Fact-check: Being 'measles free' doesn't mean there are no cases of measles - Full Fact
Verdict: the world health organisation no longer judges measles to have been eliminated in the uk – but that doesn't mean there was ever a year when there were no cases of the disease.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2019-08-20T00:00:00