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Measles Vaccination Before the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2013
At the beginning of the 1960s, it was clear that a vaccine against measles would soon be available. Although measles was (and remains) a killer disease in the developing world, in the United States and Western Europe this was no longer so. Many parents and many medical practitioners considered measles an inevitable stage of a child’s development ...
Stuart Blume, Jan Hendriks
openaire   +4 more sources

Internationally Adopted and Migrant Children Had Important Health Issues Requiring Systematic Initial Screening at Arrival

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Internationally adopted and migrant children have similar profiles as they may have experienced many adversities before arrival in their new country. We sought to compare both groups at arrival, focusing on nutritional status, infections and vaccination status.
Céline Lafay   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monte Carlo simulation of the transmission of measles: Beyond the mass action principle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
We present a Monte Carlo simulation of the transmission of measles within a population sample during its growing and equilibrium states by introducing two different vaccination schedules of one and two doses. We study the effects of the contact rate per unit time $\xi $ as well as the initial conditions on the persistence of the disease.
arxiv   +1 more source

Mandatory vaccinations in European countries, undocumented information, false news and the impact on vaccination uptake: the position of the Italian pediatric society. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
BACKGROUND: High rates of vaccination coverage are important in preventing infectious diseases. Enforcing mandatory vaccinations is one of the strategies that some Countries adopted to protect the community when vaccination coverage is not satisfactory ...
Bozzola E   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Measles among healthcare workers in Italy. Is it time to act? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Vaccination of healthcare workers (HCWs) against measles is strongly recommended in Europe. In this study, we examined the impact of measles on Italian HCWs by systematically and quantitatively analyzing measles cases involving HCWs over time and by ...
Adamo, G.   +10 more
core   +2 more sources

The Internet and the Anti-Vaccine Movement: Tracking the 2017 EU Measles Outbreak

open access: yesBig Data and Cognitive Computing, 2018
In the Internet Era of information overload, how does the individual filter and process available knowledge? In addressing this question, this paper examines the behavioral changes in the online interest in terms related to Measles and the Anti-Vaccine ...
A. Mavragani, Gabriela Ochoa
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pathogenic variants in chromatin‐related genes: Linking immune dysregulation to neuroregression and acute neuropsychiatric disorders

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Chromatin machinery influences how DNA is ‘wrapped’ around histones in the nucleosome of immune and brain cells. Plain language summary: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dmcn.16299 Abstract We report eight children with de novo pathogenic DNA variants in chromatin‐related genes: MORC2, CHD7, KANSL1, KMT2D, ZMYND11, HIST1HIE, EP300, and KMT2B.
Russell C. Dale   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Social Controversy: Autism Spectrum Disorder\u27s Correlation to the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A 1998 research study lead by Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination as a probable cause to autism spectrum disorder.
Frye, Lindsay A
core   +1 more source

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