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MMR vaccine

The MMR vaccine is a mixture of live attenuated viruses, administered via injection for immunization against measles, mumps and rubella.

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MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against COVID-19, Study Shows

Nov. 20, 2020 — The measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has been theorized to provide protection against COVID-19. In a new study, researchers provide further proof of this by showing that mumps IgG titers, or ...

Scientists Develop Effective Intranasal Mumps-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

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 stable coronavirus spike protein stimulates a stronger ...

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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 ...

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Dec. 17, 2020 — Researchers evaluated changes in measles vaccination rates from before the pandemic to this summer, when return for clinical care was encouraged. Finding a steep and lasting decline, the researchers ...

Measles Outbreaks Likely in Wake of COVID-19 Pandemic

Nov. 16, 2020 — Major measles outbreaks will likely occur during 2021 as an unexpected consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new academic ...

Evidence Mounts That MMR and Tdap Vaccines Strengthen Protection Against Severe COVID-19

Aug. 31, 2021 — Laboratory and retrospective analyses suggest that MMR and Tdap memory T cells are activated by SARS-CoV-2 and decrease COVID-19 ...

Developing Mucosal Vaccines for Respiratory Viruses

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 ...

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Apr. 29, 2021 — More than a quarter of American infants in 2018 had not received common childhood vaccines that protect them from illnesses such as polio, tetanus, measles, mumps and chicken pox, new research ...

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Jan. 21, 2021 — Researchers have developed a new integrated genetic/epigenetic DNA-sequencing protocol known as MultiMMR that can identify the presence and cause of mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency in a single test ...

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Feb. 3, 2021 — An experimental single-dose, intranasal influenza vaccine was safe and produced a durable immune response when tested in a Phase 1 study. The investigational vaccine, called Ad4-H5-VTN, is a ...

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