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Measles Vaccines

New measles vaccines study findings reported from Health Protection Agency Center for Infections

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 31st, 2008

Fresh data on measles are presented in the report 'Laboratory methods for assessing vaccine potency retained in aerosol outputs from nebulizers: application to World Health Organization measles aerosol project.' According to recent research published in the journal Vaccine, "Laboratory methods for measuring vaccine potency of nebulized aerosol are required to support clinical trials of measles aerosol vaccination. Measles vaccine containing the Edmonston Zagreb virus strain was reconstituted in sodium fluoride as tracer and nebulized from three devices."

"Emitted aerosol was collected using an impinger. Aliquots were removed from the impinger chamber for vaccine...

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