The United States is in the midst of its largest measles outbreak in 25 years, with the disease mainly hitting people who have failed to receive ...
REUTERS: The United States is in the midst of its largest measles outbreak in 25 years, with the disease mainly hitting people who have failed to receive the recommended two doses of the live measles vaccine.
While the vast majority of measles patients are unvaccinated children, up to 10 percent of patients in the current outbreak are adults who received at least one dose of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
Adults who do not live in areas where there is an outbreak, and who have received at least one dose of the vaccine should also be immune. This is also true for children not yet in school.WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE BORN BETWEEN 1957 AND 1968? It depends on what sort of vaccine they received. People with written documentation showing that they received the live MMR vaccine do not need to re-vaccinate. Those who received the inactive, or"killed" vaccine, should re-vaccinate as that version was found to be ineffective.The CDC advises pregnant woman, people who have compromised immune systems, or who received another vaccine in the last four weeks to seek their doctor's advice on getting vaccinated for measles.
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