By Zachary Stieber A commonly used combination vaccine against measles should be replaced with separate shots, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Oct. 6. The MMR vaccine targets measles, mumps, and rubella. “I call on vaccine manufacturers to develop safe monovalent vaccines to replace the combined MMR and […]
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A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.
