Mumps, Measles, Rubella News
July 26, 2024
Top Headlines
June 27, 2024 — What happens when measles virus meets a human cell? The viral machinery unfolds in just the right way to reveal key pieces that let it fuse itself into the host cell ...
May 13, 2024 — Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure. Researchers say it is vital that children born by caesarean section receive two doses of the measles vaccine for robust protection against the ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — The first study of the use of microarray patches to vaccinate children has shown that the method is safe and induces strong immune responses. The phase 1/2 randomized trial compared results from the ...
Dec. 21, 2023 — Researchers mapped how the measles virus mutated and spread in the brain of a person who succumbed to a rare, lethal brain disease. New cases of this disease, which is a complication of the measles virus, may occur as measles reemerges among the ...
Latest Headlines
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May 29, 2024 — An international team developed a new model, based on a case study of Nigeria, that may help public health officials accelerate the introduction of rubella vaccination in countries that have yet to ...
Oct. 2, 2023 — Altered measles and mumps viruses could be used as a platform to create a trivalent COVID-19 vaccine that triggers immunity to multiple variant strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, new research in ...
Jan. 11, 2023 — Vaccines that provide long-lasting protection against influenza, coronaviruses and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have proved exceptionally difficult to develop. Researchers now explore the ...
Oct. 18, 2022 — Virologists have reverse-engineered an elusive virus linked to chronic kidney disease in cats and described its mechanism of infection, outlining the zoonotic potential of RNA viruses in the ...
Sep. 13, 2022 — Current vaccination strategies are unlikely to eliminate measles, according to a new study. The paper explores the feasibility of eliminating measles and rubella using predominant vaccination ...
July 27, 2022 — New research has advanced COVID-19 vaccine work in several ways: using a modified live attenuated mumps virus for delivery, showing that a more ...
July 20, 2022 — Paramyxoviruses have the potential to trigger a devastating pandemic. This family of viruses includes measles, Nipah virus, mumps, Newcastle disease and canine distemper. An international team has ...
Oct. 14, 2021 — Researchers have described a novel host strategy for combating viruses such as measles virus that affect the mitochondria, structures within the cell. The presence of the RNA genome of the measles ...
Earlier Headlines
Oct. 3, 2022 — As of late September 2022, nearly 78 percent of U.S. adults but only 31 percent of children ages 5 to 11 had completed the primary set of vaccinations against COVID-19, according to health ...