There is concern around an increase in confirmed cases of Measles, both nationally and locally and a fall off in MMR vaccination rates with Scarborough being identified as a hot spot.
The percentage of people with two doses of the MMR Vaccination has fallen to its lowest level since 2011.
The NHS’s Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board has said people should check if they are vaccinated, particularly those in their 20s.
Councillor Michael Harrison is North Yorkshire Council's Executive Member for Health and Adult Services he says there are some "hot spots" where vaccination numbers are lower than they should be.
There have been 959 suspected infections found in England and Wales so far this year.
The figure compares to the 368 laboratory confirmed cases of measles found during the whole of 2023 and 54 in 2022.
And it comes after the World Health Organisation declared measles eradicated in the UK in 2017.
Measles is a respiratory disease that is highly infectious and is most common in children.
It can cause a high fever, runny nose and rashes along with potentially serious complications, including death in the worst cases.
Measles, mumps and rubella together can result in meningitis, hearing loss and problems during pregnancy.
Having two measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine doses protects around 99 per cent of people from measles while there is no known cure for those who catch it.
But the percentage of those with two doses has fallen to its lowest level since 2011, 85.4 per cent.
Local clinicians and councillors say they were aware that some people in their 20s may not have the jab because of misinformation that circulated about it in the late 1990s.
Some claimed at the time that the MMR jab was linked to autism in children but the claims have been repeatedly discredited.
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