MMR vaccine: the continuing saga

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7280.183

BMJ 2001;322:183-184 ( 27 January )

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MMR vaccine: the continuing saga

Current concerns are idiosyncratic: most reviews have confirmed the vaccine's safety

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The current low uptake of measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in some parts of the United Kingdom has led to well publicisedconcerns about the potential for measles outbreaks among primaryschool entrants. This has coincided with prepublication publicitylast week of a paper casting doubts on the adequacy of the evidencewhich secured the licence for MMR vaccine.¹ Understandablysome parents and health professionals are confused and anxiousand, in an effort to protect their children against measles, havesought single antigen vaccines. We have reviewed the latest developmentsin this saga and are convinced that such confusion and anxietyabout MMR vaccine areunfounded.

The authors of the paper, Wakefield and Montgomery, imply that they have examined all the safety data relating to the licensingof the vaccine¹ in the early 1970s (1971 in US and 1972 inUK, not 1975 and 1988 as they say). Although this is their aim,. . . [Full text of this article]

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