On Monday, the current CDC director, on Monday, called on vaccines manufacturers to develop separate shots for measles, mumps and rubella instead of the current vaccine, which unites three.
O'Neill wrote in a post on x that manufacturers should replace the MMR vaccine with “safe one -time vaccines”, which are aimed at only one virus. His statement refers Recent comment by President Donald TrumpThose who advised people last month on the issues of the “social” truth in order to “break the MMR shot into three completely separate shots”.
Nevertheless, the USA is not approved by monitors for measles, mumps or rubella, and the centers for the control and prevention of diseases say that there is There are no published scientific evidence This shows the advantage in the separation of a combined vaccine. It is unclear whether the call to the change that O'Neill calls or can happen.
Current, mumps and a rubella vaccine was available as a combined picture since 1971, partly to reduce the amount of injections that children receive, given that the three are introduced at the same age.
The destruction of the MMR vaccine, two doses, in which the first shot is recommended after 12-15 months, and the second is 4 to 6 years, will mean that children will receive six injections instead of two.
It is not clear where the Trump Council came from. The White House is not responsible for establishing recommendations on vaccines or drug use.
IN White House event On September 22, the president expressed preference to individuals compared to combined pictures, while at the same time condemning the number of vaccines that children receive, saying that “too many different things go to this child with too much number.”
“MMR, I think, should be taken separately,” Trump said. “This is based on what I feel … It seems that when you mix them, there may be a problem. So there is no shortage of taking them separately. ”
Merck, a pharmaceutical company that has produced MMR vaccine since 1971, said in its statement that the use of individual vaccines “increases the number of injections for humans and can lead to a delay or missed immunization.”
At the same time, the company added, “The data testify This use of combined vaccines improves vaccination results in childhood, increasing both the completion (receipt of all recommended doses) and the response rate (corresponding to age). ”
The United States recorded more Cases of measles this year than in any other since 2000When the country eliminated the disease.
Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was founded in the past anti-Waccine group, repeatedly made false claims About measles vaccines, including that they were not “tested for safety” and that their protection is short -lived. Nevertheless, Kennedy also said that people should get vaccination.
The Ministry of Health and Social Services has already advanced to limit access to the combined MMR and the vaccine with chickenpox vaccines for children. On September 18, the CDC vaccine consulting committee recommended this vaccine for children under 4 years old. O'Neill, who is also the deputy minister of health, signed the recommendation last week. (Most pediatricians already give young children a vaccine against dilapidated smallpox and MMR vaccine separately.)
The recommendation of the committee was based on an increased risk of feverish seizures (attacks caused by fever, which, as a rule, are decided quickly), which doctors knew for many years. Combined MMR and vaccines with chickenpox vaccines can still be provided to older children, since in this age group there is no evidence of increased risk of febrile capture.
A few days later, Trump said that he was “very happy” that the vaccines against chickenpox would be introduced separately from MMR vaccines.
