MMR

abbreviation

1. measles, mumps, and rubella: a combined vaccine given to young children

Example Sentences

The CDC currently recommends a combination shot known as MMR to prevent the three diseases.

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One grandmother emailed me, desperate for advice, as her daughter, wary of the MMR vaccine, was refusing to have her grandchild vaccinated.

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Declining uptake in the MMR jab, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, has recently sparked concern among medics.

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The most recent - a high-quality study from Denmark in 2019 looked at 657,461 children, and concluded that the data did not support the MMR vaccine causing or triggering autism.

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"Proponents of a link between MMR vaccine and autism cite the 1998 research paper in the Lancet, whose first author was Andrew Wakefield," he added.

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