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Early doses of the MMR vaccine may mean less protection later, the state’s health department said. In one county with a high infection rate, it’s worth the risk, officials said. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) An example of a measles virus. Utah health officials, seeing high infection rates for measles in Washington County, are recommending an early, extra vaccine …

The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is undergoing more scrutiny by the Trump administration in their ongoing reassessment of vaccines despite the worst measles outbreak in decades. Jim O’Neill, the deputy secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), called on Monday …

The combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine — better known as the MMR shot —should be split into three separate vaccines, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Acting Director Jim O’Neill said this week. His post on X included similar language posted on X by President Donald Trump in late September. This proposal has raised alarms for many public …

Acting CDC director says to break up MMR shot  The Hill Acting CDC director calls for MMR vaccine to be broken up into three shots  statnews.com Acting CDC director calls to ‘break up’ the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three shots  NBC News US health official calls for separating measles combination shots  Reuters Acting CDC director, citing Trump directive, calls for MMR shot …

(Reuters) -The acting director of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, in an X post on Monday called on vaccine manufacturers to develop three separate monovalent vaccines to replace the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. This comes hours after O’Neill signed off on a vaccine advisory panel’s recommendation against the use of a combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine before the age of 4 years. Instead, shots …

President Trump’s suggestion last week that combination childhood vaccines, including the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, shot, should be separated marks a sharp break from decades of immunization practice in the United States. “I was shocked,” said Dr. William Moss, executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Those vaccines …

Tom Walker BBC News, Liverpool BBC Aimee said recent news reports had made her reconsider her doubts about vaccines A mother-of-three who previously had vaccine safety concerns said she had allowed her children to have the MMR jab following the recent death of a child with measles. Aimee, from Liverpool, said she and some of her friends had been sceptical, …