Measles Vaccine
Female mortality increased when measles vaccine was followed by DPT vaccine
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 21st, 2006
According to recent research from Guinea-Bissau, Sudan, and Canada, "West African studies have hypothesized that increased female mortality after high-titer measles vaccine (HTMV) was due to subsequent diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) and inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) vaccinations. We tested two deductions from this hypothesis in HTMV studies from rural Sudan and Kinshasa; first, there should be no excess female mortality for HTMV recipients when DTP was not given after HTMV and second, excess female mortality should only be...
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