Video: Swansea GP blames press 'scaremongering' for measles outbreak Dr Juhasz said that extra surgeries have been put on to deal with the increased demand for the MMR vaccine in the wake of the current measles epidemic. The Government has dismissed claims by Dr Andrew Wakefield - the doctor who sparked a global scare about the MMR vaccine 15 years ago - that officials were responsible for the recent outbreak affecting south Wales, the north east of England and in Gloucestershire. "The big problem in Swansea is that the local press at the time of the Wakefield farrago had a very, very biased reportage, and they basically terrified the parents of the children of Swansea, and a lot of parents were frightened to have their children immunised because of this bad reporting," said Dr Juhasz. Compared to the rest of the country, which saw a dip in the uptake of MMR, Swansea saw a significant dip, and this is why at the moment we are suffering so badly.