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Six children in these church groups and three children in the surrounding community died from measles. By , due to effective use of vaccine, measles was essentially eliminated from the United States. Of those, people were hospitalized and 61 experienced complications, including pneumonia and encephalitis inflammation of the brain. This was the largest U. The reason: some parents were choosing not to vaccinate their children.
Measles is a disease that is caused by a virus. People with measles may have some or all of the following:. When an infected person coughs or sneezes, measles viruses are spread in the small respiratory droplets. If a susceptible person breathes in these droplets or touches an infected surface and then puts their hand in their mouth or nose, they are likely to get measles. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases. In fact, if susceptible people are in a room with someone who is infected, 90 of them are likely to become ill with measles.
Pregnant women who are infected with measles can miscarry, deliver early, or have a low-birth-weight baby. People who are immune compromised are at risk of having prolonged and severe illness. Call your healthcare provider and mention your concern. Because measles is so contagious, providers typically do not want infected patients sharing a waiting room with other patients.
This is particularly important for infants who are too young to receive the vaccine. Before the mumps vaccine, mumps was the most common cause of meningitis swelling of the lining of the brain and spinal cord in children. Virtually all children recovered from meningitis, but some were left with permanent deafness. In fact, before a vaccine was available, mumps was the most common cause of acquired deafness in the United States. The vaccine was developed when vaccine researcher, Maurice Hilleman, isolated mumps virus from his daughter, Jeryl Lynn, when she was 5 years old and became ill with mumps.
Mumps is a virus that usually causes swelling in the salivary or parotid glands, just below the ear, lasting for about seven to 10 days. The swelling may occur on one or both sides of the face, causing a chipmunk-like appearance in infected people. This may be accompanied by muscle aches, fatigue, lack of appetite, headache and low-grade fever.
While many mumps infections are mild, not all are. Mumps can infect testicles, causing a disease known as orchitis in up to 1 of every 3 infected males. Some men with orchitis were found to be sterile after the infection resolved. Additionally, mumps infection during pregnancy occasionally resulted in the death of the unborn child. Before the rubella vaccine, children infected with rubella would develop a light, mild rash on the face.
Some children would also develop swelling of the lymph glands behind the ear. Rubella was a mild infection of childhood. But in , an Australian eye doctor made a curious observation. He found that many children were born with congenital cataracts and blindness following an outbreak of rubella. This was evidence that rubella could permanently damage the developing fetus. Rubella is a viral infection, also known as German measles. Rubella infection of children causes a mild rash on the face, swelling of glands behind the ear, occasionally a short-lived swelling of small joints like the joints of the hand , and low-grade fever.
Children virtually always recover from rubella infection without consequence. But rubella is not always a mild infection. Before the rubella vaccine as many as 20, babies were born every year with birth defects because of the capacity of rubella virus to infect the unborn child. In fact, 85 of women infected with rubella in the first trimester of pregnancy had babies that were permanently harmed.
Rubella virus can cause blindness, deafness, heart defects or mental deficits in infants whose mothers were infected early in pregnancy. Watch this short film, Stanley Plotkin: Pioneering the Use of Fetal Cells to Make Rubella Vaccine , to see how determined scientists were to protect women from rubella infection during pregnancy.
While rubella was not typically a severe childhood illness, it could be fatal when pregnant women were infected. Before the vaccine, each year about 20, babies were harmed when their mothers were infected during pregnancy. For this reason rubella parties were recommended by pediatricians to ensure that young girls were exposed before they were old enough to become pregnant.
Today, with the availability of a vaccine, doctors and parents can be assured that children are becoming immune to these diseases in the safest way possible.
The MMR vaccine contains vaccines that protect against three viral infections: measles, mumps and rubella. MMR vaccine is given as a series of two doses with the first dose at 12 to 15 months of age and the second at 4 to 6 years of age. Watch as Dr. Paul Offit. View this video with a transcript. While the MMR vaccine is the only way to be protected against measles, mumps and rubella, this section describes each vaccine component separately.
The measles vaccine is a live, "weakened" form of natural measles virus. To make some vaccines, viruses are "weakened" by a process called "cell culture adaptation" see How Are Vaccines Made? Natural measles virus normally grows in cells that line the back of the throat, skin or lungs.
Lisa Maragakis, M. Stories about measles have saturated our public and private space, dominating news media and social outlets and sparking lively water cooler discussions.
In a sea of information from various sources — some of them reliable, some of them less so — many parents seek a better understanding of the disease and vaccinations. Johns Hopkins infectious disease experts Aaron Milstone, M. The number of children who are not getting the measles vaccine has increased, making the U. Unvaccinated children are at risk of getting measles, but so are other people who are not able to get the vaccine or who have compromised immune systems.
Measles is a highly contagious viral infection — one of the most contagious of all known infections. Nine out of 10 unimmunized children who are in contact with an infected person will contract the virus.
The virus can linger in the air for about two hours after a person with measles has left the room. It can infect those who enter the room if they are unimmunized.
People who travel to areas with known measles cases are at risk of getting the disease. People who travel outside the country to areas where measles is common bring it into the U. Getting the measles vaccine is the best way to protect yourself. Section Navigation. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. CDC recommends that children get two doses of MMR vaccine: the first dose at 12 through 15 months of age, and the second dose at 4 through 6 years of age.
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