"Honestly the chances of any problems with MMR are more than the chances of riding 2 up on the lochness monster with Elvis waving a winning lottery ticket."
The reason that a lot of parents didn't take the MMR jab is because there was a link to autism.
coincidentally, what was the news last week? - up to 1 in 100 (yes 100) children are now thought to have autism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5174144.stm
Compare that to measles, mumps or rubella:
Measles: The most severe complication of measles - occurring in only one in 100,000 cases - is a slowly-progressive brain infection which does not normally show until some time after the original infection, and eventually causes seizures and death.
Mumps: Mumps does not usually cause serious long term problems, the acute symptoms, such as severe swelling of the salivary glands under the jaw bone, can be very uncomfortable.
Rubella: Many people with rubella have few or no symptoms, and only about half of the people who have the disease get a rash.
However, if a pregnant woman gets rubella during the first three months of pregnancy, her baby is at risk of having serious birth defects or dying.
Better get down the bookies and double check those odds!