Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine

Clinicians should consider rubella virus as a potential contributor to granulomatous skin disease in both immunodeficient and immunocompetent patients, according to a study.

Two children with severe cow’s milk allergy developed anaphylactic reactions after receiving doses of a measles, mumps and rubella — or MMR — vaccine that included the alpha-lactoglobulin component of milk, researchers reported.

The New York City measles outbreak that sickened more than 600 people in Brooklyn and Queens over the course of almost a year has ended, officials said.

Experts have warned that migrant children detained at the southern U.S. border are at risk for numerous illnesses, including some infectious diseases. The revelation last week of a government policy not to vaccinate migrant children and their families against influenza raised concerns among medical experts and drew renewed attention to the reported influenza-related deaths of at least three children in U.S. custody.

EULAR recommendations now state that vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella, as well as herpes zoster, may be considered with caution in adult patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases at risk, according to a 2019 update published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.