Aerosolized MMR vaccine showed good seropositivity

Aerosolized MMR vaccine can be used in booster campaigns in school-age children for measles and rubella, said José Luis Díaz Ortega, MD, of the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Mexico, and his associates.

However, more studies of school-age children with longer follow-up of mumps antibody persistence are needed, they said.

^{CDC/ Cynthia S. Goldsmith; William Bellini, Ph.D.}

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^{Courtesy CDC/NIP/Barbara Rice}

Measles cases has reached a 20-year high in the United States, with 288 reported as of May 23.

Aerosolized vaccines are not available in the United States.

Read more in the journal Vaccine (2017 Apr 28. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.04.027).

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