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Combination vaccine protecting against measles, mumps and rubella, administered in childhood as a cornerstone of routine immunization schedules worldwide.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
US measles cases reached 3,471 by Sept. 17, about 52% more than in all of 2025, CDC figures show. New AAP guidance prepares clinicians for babies infected before birth, whose risk estimates rest on limited research.
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A physician and epidemiologist who nearly died of measles in 1961 warns in STAT about this year's surge. Working through the essay's own figures puts the susceptible share of a childhood cohort near one in ten.
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Karolinska researchers followed 3.7 million births for up to 30 years and found that raised autism and intellectual disability risks held even when infected children were compared with their own uninfected siblings.
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The Aug. 10 order also cuts the routine childhood list from 18 vaccines to 11 on the argument that the United States is out of step with Europe, and the pediatricians who have read it say no new safety or efficacy data came with it.
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Four deaths in a 693-case Pennsylvania outbreak have been attributed to measles by state officials and a county coroner, while the CDC's 2026 measles death count stands at zero pending the coding of death records.
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An immunologist argues the directive sets direction without holding authority. That leaves clinicians and state programs reconciling two sources of guidance, with nobody appointed to do it.
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The useful number is not the national average but the 18-point gap between the best and worst state trends over ten years, and the share of the shortfall that is now signed paperwork.
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A vaccine executive order, a new food-additive notification duty and a finalized CMS coverage ban all landed in the same week. Each forces near-term decisions from labs, manufacturers and clinics.
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