"It must be better for children to receive a single vaccine than to have nothing at all. If immunisation rates don't rise substantially when we are returned to government, we will make single-dose vaccines available to provide parental choice," he said. This, too, is a flawed argument and...
Lack of confidence in the MMR vaccine affects immunization rates - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life SciencesZosia Kmietowicz
The MMR triple vaccine provides protection from measles, mumps and rubella (German measles). These diseases can have serious complications such as convulsions, temporary or permanent deafness, meningitis, brain damage and even death. However, since the introduction of the MMR vaccine in 1988, these...
vaccine, multipleclinical trialscomparing the combination with separately administeredMMR+ V vaccines demonstrated that the MMRV combination stimulated immune responses equivalent to those achieved with separate MMR + V (for rubella, GMCs were somewhat lower with MMRV but seroprotection rates were 99–100...
Risk of measles outbreak as vaccination rates fall Those people who have never received a measles vaccine (MMR) are at risk, and susceptibility is particularly high among 19-25 year olds not fully vaccinated due to unfounded stories in the early 2000s (the 'Wakefield cohorts'). UKHSA dat.....
Andrew Wakefield was paid by lawyers to undermine the MMR vaccine Read the original article A critical look at Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who triggered the MMR scare that caused vaccination rates to fall across the UK resulting in the return of large numbers of measles and mumps cases. Includ...
[8]. Many believe that continued negative media communication about MMR vaccine triggered sustained declines in MMR vaccination rates [9]. Falling vaccination rates have had consequences. In 2008, England and Wales had 1348 confirmed measles cases and measles was declared endemic in the United King...
4/22/2016 - A former British medical officer who was responsible for deciding if medications were safe for the general public has accused the government he used to serve of "utterly inexplicable complacency" over the triple measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine for children, the UK's Daily...
The article discusses the potential relationship between the DTP (diptheria, tetanus, and pertussis) vaccine and the development of autism in children. The alleged link with autism is supposed to be mediated by thiomersal, the mercury-based material used as a preservative in the version of the ...
measles vaccine, which is not licensed in the UK. Many parents who have paid for the single mumps vaccine privately will have received the Urabe or Rubini strains imported from the continent. The Urabe strain, which was included in the earlier version of the MMR vaccine, was ...