OBJECTIVES: To test the effectiveness of messages designed to reduce vaccine misperceptions and increase vaccination rates for measles-mumps-rubella (MMR). METHODS: A Web-based nationally representative 2-wave survey experiment was conducted with 1759 parents age 18 years and older residing in the United States who have children in their household age 17 years or younger (conducted June–July 20...

OBJECTIVES: To test the effectiveness of messages designed to reduce vaccine misperceptions and increase vaccination rates for measles-mumps-rubella (MMR). METHODS: A Web-based nationally representative 2-wave survey experiment was conducted with 1759 parents age 18 years and older residing in the United States who have children in their household age 17 years or younger (conducted June–July 20...

Introduction and Background Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) are infectious diseases, primarily of childhood, which cause significant mortality and morbidity globally. These infections are, however, vaccine preventable and there is potential for them to be eradicated worldwide through the strategic use of organised population immunisation programmes. Following the introduction of the MMR vaccin...

Congenital rubella syndrome is a constellation of birth defects that can have devastating consequences, impacting approximately 100,000 births worldwide each year. The incidence much lower in countries routinely vaccinate their population. In the US, postnatal immunization susceptible women an important epidemiological strategy for prevention as Center Disease Control (CDC) does not recommend a...

To the Editor: I wish to congratulate Dr Chandra Mohan Kumar and Dr Preeti Sharma for reading the article in great details and pointing errors in the manuscript [1]. However I do not totally agree with their views on all points and condemning the article as misleading. In the abstract there is no mention of MMR and why there is mention for Hib. In fact Hib is being given in more states (9) than...