Measles Outbreak in a Boarding School An interesting factoid in this report is that the source patient had been fully vaccinated for measles and yet this child caught the measles and gave it too the others. Vaccination rarely provides full long term coverage against the disease, and this protection pales in comparison to immunity from […]
IMMUNE MODULATION AFTER MEASLES VACCINATION OF 6–9 MONTH OLDS “Administration of high titre measles vaccines before 7 months of age led to increased overall mortality.” I understand that measles in developing nations can be a serious and life threatening disease. But here in the US deaths from measles are virtually unheard of. So, in the […]
Why is measles still endemic in Japan? At first glance, this article would seem to support widespread vaccination of all infants. However, looking at the statistics, 88 out of 200,000 children died of the measles in Japan in 2000. That is 0.044%. Now, I am sure if we examined these 88 children that did succumb […]
