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    The MMR vaccine is a vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles), abbreviated as MMR. The first dose is generally given to children around...
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  • Claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism have been extensively investigated and found to be false. The link was first suggested in the early...
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  • The scientific consensus on vaccines and autism is that there is no causal connection between MMR, or any other vaccine, and autism. In February 1998...
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    The vaccine is available both by itself and in combinations such as the MMR vaccine (a combination with the rubella vaccine and mumps vaccine) or the...
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    with measles and rubella vaccine known as MMR. A formulation with the previous three and the varicella (chickenpox) vaccine known as MMRV is also available...
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  • response to evidence refuting each in turn. The idea of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism came to prominence after the publication of a paper by Andrew...
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    measles (MR vaccine), measles and mumps vaccine (MMR vaccine) and measles, mumps and varicella vaccine (MMRV vaccine). A rubella vaccine was first licensed...
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    scientific consensus is that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism, and that the MMR vaccine's benefits in preventing measles, mumps, and rubella...
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    Andrew Wakefield (category MMR vaccine and autism)
    discredited academic, anti-vaccine activist, and former physician. He was struck off the medical register for his involvement in The Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998...
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  • The MMRV vaccine has similar immunogenicity and overall safety profiles to the MMR vaccine administered with or without the varicella vaccine. The MMRV...
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