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‘It's a shot, not a vaccine like MMR’: A new type of vaccine-specific scepticism on Twitter/X during the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesVaccine: X
Background: While it is well-known that vaccine hesitancy can be vaccine-specific, little is known about how people spontaneously evaluate different vaccines in comparison with one another, or the implications of such comparisons for vaccine attitudes ...
Elena Semino   +5 more
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Efficacy of Rubella Vaccination after Co-Inoculation with Rhogam

open access: yesViruses, 2023
Congenital rubella syndrome is a constellation of birth defects that can have devastating consequences, impacting approximately 100,000 births worldwide each year. The incidence is much lower in countries that routinely vaccinate their population. In the
Joshua S. Brunton   +5 more
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Clinical trials show similar safety outcomes including febrile convulsion rates for GSK’s and Merck’s measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccines

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2023
Combined measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccines produced by GSK (GSK-MMR) and Merck (Merck-MMR) have demonstrated effectiveness and an acceptable safety profile, as documented over decades of post-licensure use in various regions worldwide.
Md Ahsan Habib   +4 more
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Mitigating Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Trust to Prevent Future Measles Outbreaks in England

open access: yesVaccines, 2023
Measles, a highly infectious respiratory viral infection associated with severe morbidity and mortality, is preventable when coverage with the highly effective measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) is ≥95%. Vaccine hesitancy is responsible for measles
Sarah Thompson   +3 more
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Influence of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine series initiation and completion on influenza vaccination among adolescents

open access: yesInternational Journal of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2022
Background: Influenza vaccine participation in adolescents is low. Barriers to the influenza vaccine may be shared with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.
F. Trent Beeninga   +4 more
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MMR vaccine and allergy [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Disease in Childhood, 2000
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;
R, Lakshman, A, Finn
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A novel cancer vaccine for melanoma based on an approved vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella

open access: yesMolecular Therapy: Oncolytics, 2022
Common vaccines for infectious diseases have been repurposed as cancer immunotherapies. The intratumoral administration of these repurposed vaccines can induce immune cell infiltration into the treated tumor. Here, we have used an approved trivalent live
Manlio Fusciello   +10 more
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Does Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccination Protect against COVID-19 Outcomes: A Nationwide Cohort Study

open access: yesVaccines, 2022
Cross-protection from previous live attenuated vaccines is proposed to explain the low impact of COVID-19 on children. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of live attenuated MMR vaccines on the risk of being hospitalized for COVID-19 in children.
Epiphane Kolla   +5 more
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Immunogenicity and safety of the combined vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella isolated or combined with the varicella component administered at 3-month intervals: randomised study

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2019
BACKGROUND Field testing required to license the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine must take into account the current recommendation of the vaccine in Brazil: first dose at 12 months and second dose at 15 months of age in combination ...
Eliane Matos dos Santos   +12 more
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