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From:Expert Review of Vaccines (Vol. 12, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Felicity T Cutts [*] 1 , Justin Lessler 2 , Charlotte JE Metcalf 3 Keywords : congenital rubella syndrome; epidemiology; measles; measles elimination; rubella; rubella elimination; vaccination...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 323, Issue 7323) Peer-ReviewedDoctor cleared over using measles jabs instead of MMR: The General Medical Council has refused to take action over Dr Peter Mansfield, a Lincolnshire GP, who allowed parents to choose the single measles vaccine rather...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 323, Issue 7308) Peer-ReviewedThe doctor who referred a colleague providing single vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella to the General Medical Council has defended his actions as the only available way of raising issues of patients' safety in...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 75, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe impact of a mass vaccination campaign against measles--rubella in England and Wales was assessed using the results of a saliva test for measles-specific IgM, which was offered to all notified cases of measles. By...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 111, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To assess the level of immunity to measles, tetanus, and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) in previously immunized children who have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and were treated with highly...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 180, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMeasles mortality falling: In 2007, 197 000 people died from measles, down from 750 000 in 2000. The Measles Initiative (www.measles initiative.org), an organization that provides support for vaccination campaigns and...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 318, Issue 7199) Peer-ReviewedA leading virologist is calling on the scientific community to spend no more time investigating alleged links between the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine, inflammatory bowel disease, and autism after the...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 29, Issue 20)A two-dose strategy for measles vaccination may effectively prevent measles outbreaks in schools if the second vaccination is given before children enter elementary school, reported Dr. Charles R. Vitek of the Centers...
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From:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 158, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedControversy in medicine is inevitable, but it becomes problematic when the issue is a serious public health problem requiring a clear plan of action. In recent years measles has made a major resurgence in this country,...
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From:Weekly Epidemiological Record (Vol. 92, Issue 17)Introduction In accordance with its mandate to provide guidance to the Member States on health policy matters, WHO issues a series of regularly updated position papers on vaccines and combinations of vaccines against...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 101, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To determine if there is evidence for a causal relationship between acute encephalopathy followed by permanent brain injury or death associated with the administration of further attenuated measles vaccines...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Measles remains a major public health problem in many developing countries in which vaccination coverage is poor, as is the case in the Central African Republic (CAR). At the beginning of the 2000s, a...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground The relationship between allergic individuals and their responsiveness to routine vaccines has rarely been investigated. This study examined whether the seroprevalence of measles antibody differed between...
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From:Science (Vol. 258, Issue 5082) Peer-ReviewedThe World Health Organization has suspended use of the high-titer Edmonston-Zagreb measles vaccine. The vaccine was the most effective measles prevention measure ever developed, but it increased the risk to children of...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 97, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVaccinating six- to 11-month-olds during a measles outbreak appears to afford good protection. Some believe that measles vaccination is less effective in this age range because the baby still has circulating maternal...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 114, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedMeasles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) is a disease of the immunocompromised host and typically occurs within 1 year of acute measles infection or vaccination. We report a 13-year-old boy who had chronic...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 177, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBurden of proof: Although studies have found no causal link between autism and childhood vaccines containing thimerosal, the parents of a 12-year-old Arizona girl have asked the US Court of Federal Claims to find that...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 70, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAn outbreak of measles in Kampala, Uganda, in 1990 raised concern the effectiveness of the measles vaccine that was used. The Uganda EPI programme and the medical office of the Kampala City Council therefore conducted a...
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From:Journal of Family Practice (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground. During the 1988 measles epidemic in Houston, Texas, the Harris County Medical Society made each of its members aware of the Centers for Disease Control recommendations concerning revaccination of persons...
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From:Science (Vol. 265, Issue 5177) Peer-ReviewedThe widespread availability of vaccines has not yet eliminated the death toll from measles. The age of suceptibility has dropped to a point where inherited immunity can neutralize the vaccine's effect. Public health...