Since the Workshop, the Minister for Health and Family Services has confirmed that the first stage of the Enhanced Measles Control Program will take place in 1998-99. An additional dose of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR) will be offered to all primary school children in Australia in a school-based program between July and October 1998; the second scheduled dose of MMR vaccine will be brough...

OBJECTIVE This study (NCT00969436) compared the immunogenicity and safety of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) followed by MMR+varicella (V) vaccines to (1) 2 doses of combined MMRV and (2) MMR followed by MMRV, in Indian children. DESIGN Phase III, open, randomised, non-inferiority study. SETTING 6 tertiary care hospitals located in India. PARTICIPANTS Healthy participants aged 9-10 months not...

This cross-sectional study evaluated the immune status of non-vaccinated healthy infants to determine if it is possible to replace both measles vaccine (at 9 months) and measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine (at 18 months) with a single dose of MMR at 12 months. Serum samples from 566 children in Alexandria, Egypt showed a significant decrease in the seropositive rate to the 3 viral diseases...

This report presents new recommendations adopted in June 2009 by CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding use of the combination measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine (MMRV, ProQuad, Merck & Co., Inc.). MMRV vaccine was licensed in the United States in September 2005 and may be used instead of measles, mumps, rubella vaccine (MMR, M-M-RII, Merck & Co., Inc.) ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of adverse events following the administration of three commercially available measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) combination vaccines. METHODS A randomized double-blind clinical trial was performed in 1996 that involved a total of 10 142 students 6-12 years of age in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil. An MMR vaccine containing the Edmonston-Zagreb, Leningr...

MMR In 1998, Andrew Wakefield and colleagues published a case series of eight patients who developed autism within 1 mo of receiving MMR vaccine. The paper, which was published in the Lancet, has since been retracted; technically, it no longer exists. The impact of the media firestorm that followed, however, cannot be retracted. The authors argued that measles vaccine virus—because it was combi...

Background. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends adults born in 1957 or later have documentation of at least one dose of MMR vaccine and high risk adults and healthcare workers have a second dose. Limited data exists on the safety of MMR vaccine in adults. We reviewed reports of adverse events (AEs) to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in order to ass...

BACKGROUND Limited data exist on the safety of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in adults. We reviewed reports of adverse events (AEs) to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) to assess safety in this previously understudied group. METHODS VAERS is the national spontaneous vaccine safety surveillance system coadministered by the Centers for Disease Control and Preven...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Emphasizing societal benefits of vaccines has been linked to increased vaccination intentions in adults. It is unclear if this pattern holds for parents deciding whether to vaccinate their children. The objective was to determine whether emphasizing the benefits of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination directly to the vaccine recipient or to society differentially imp...