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Mon 12 Dec 2002Vaccine clinic gets 'tremendous response'The privately owned UK-based company that held clinics in Waterford at the weekend providing individual vaccines for measles are to return to the city in March, June and September 2003 after claiming the response to their first Irish clinic was "tremendous".The presence of Direct Health 2000 attracted criticism late last week from the South Eastern Health Board's public health specialist, Dr Neville De Souza, who warned that the single vaccinations - the measles jabs are to be followed by doses aimed at preventing mumps and rubella - are unlicensed.