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Measles vaccine misinformation

Just some notes on the measles misinformation floating around. You can check out my herd immunity post regarding herd immunity specifically.

when you find out that measles is the second listed side effect o the MMR vaccine

"atypical measles" isn't a vaccine side effect today... It was a gnarly abnormal and rare reaction if someone received the vaccine prior to 1968 and encountered measles in the wild later. The language on the insert is required to be there by law, eventhough we do not use that old vaccine anymore. The new vaccine, 1968 onward, uses a weakened live virus and in 1971 and onward is administered with mumps and rubella vaccines, "MMR".

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