Reassurance given about MMR vaccine

Public less worried about MMR vaccine than many other issues.

The measles, mumps, and rubel-la vaccine may not be as great a bogeyman as recent media coverage suggests. Research by the market research organisation MORI shows that people worry more about biological weapons, the genetic modification of food and animals, bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, organ transplants from animals to humans, gene therapy, and health problems...

Improving uptake of MMR vaccine.

Leading articles MMR vaccine and allergy

MMR vaccine and allergy Live measles and mumps vaccine viruses are cultured in chick embryo fibroblasts and may contain minute amounts of egg related antigens. 1–3 In view of this, there has been a longstanding debate on the safety of these vaccines in children with severe allergic reactions to egg. Initially it was believed that such children could safely receive the vaccine; Kamin et al in 19...

Leading articles MMR vaccine and allergy

Leading articles MMR vaccine and allergy