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 ‘break up the MMR shot into three totally separate shots,’” Jim O’Neill, deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and acting director of the CDC, wrote on X.
O’Neill was quoting President Donald Trump, who said on social media in September that the MMR vaccine should be separated into three shots. That followed the president advising people during a briefing to get separate measles, mumps, and rubella shots….