The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should stop recommending a combination measles shot to young children, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) said on Sept. 18.
The CDC should only recommend the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine, not the measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (MMRV) vaccine for children aged younger than 4, ACIP said.
The vote was 8–3. Dr. Robert Malone recused himself because he was in the past a paid expert for plaintiffs suing Merck, which manufactures MMR and MMRV vaccines.
If Jim O’Neill, the deputy health secretary and acting CDC director, accepts the recommendation, the CDC would change its vaccine schedule….