The acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called for vaccine makers to develop separate shots ...
A top U.S. health official on Monday called for the combined measles-mumps-rubella shot to be broken up, drawing a quick ...
The acting director of the CDC, Jim O'Neill, in an X post on Monday called on vaccine manufacturers to develop three separate monovalent vaccines to replace the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
Individual vaccines for each virus aren't available in the U.S., and there is no published scientific evidence that shows a benefit to separating the combined vaccine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its immunization schedule on Monday, dropping the universal ...