Pediatrics (Measles)

Some Babies More Prone to Measles

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 15th, 1999

Infants whose mothers were vaccinated against measles inherit few natural antibodies and are far more likely to catch the virus than infants of older, unvaccinated mothers, according to a new study.

The study confirms what public health officials anticipated when the vaccine was licensed in 1963, that the population would lose natural immunity to measles.

Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that unvaccinated infants of mothers born after 1963 were 7.5 times as likely to catch measles as unvaccinated infants of mothers born before 1963.

The findings appeared in the November 1999 issue of...

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