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Acting CDC director calls to ‘break up’ the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three shots

Acting CDC director calls to ‘break up’ the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three shots

Acting CDC Director Jim O’Neill on Monday called on vaccine manufacturers to develop separate shots for measles, mumps and rubella instead of the current vaccine, which combines the three. O’Neill wrote in a post on X that manufacturers should replace the MMR vaccine with “safe monovalent vaccines,” which only target one virus. His statement referenced a recent comment from President …

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