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Mumps

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Mumps, Measles and Rubella combined vacciness

On MMR Vaccine you made a nice, grammatical edit under "Formulation." However, you also added the word "attenuated" in front of "virus" when describing the vaccine. I have removed the word attenuated where it is repititious, and added a fact tag asking for a reference.

In particular, what does the word "attenuated" mean in this case? Is Merck referring to the passage of virus through non-human tissue, changing the virus' tropism? Is it exposure to Formalyn? Is it the freeze-drying?

I know you are on the pro-vaccination side of the debate surrounding compulsory vaccination of children. Personally, I think both sides have valid assertions to make. I'm not happy with the article POV on MMR Vaccine, that is why I injected the topic of Formulation -- what the vaccine truly contains.

I think you are so 'pro-' vaccination, that you believe throwing around the word 'attenuated' might help your case. However, the word 'attenuated' sounds ridiculous. Merck called the vaccine's virus 'attenuated' 29 years before they were aware that there were two strains of Jeryl Lynn mumps in it. Now that it's 2006, we can be step-by-step specific about how that vaccine is made an what is in it. Heathhunnicutt 15:49, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Attenuated as distinct from 1) wild or 2) dead or 3) sub-unit. Both subtypes of the strain Jerryl-Lynn wil be attenuated. We don't have compulsory vaccination of children and I'm not part of a debate about it. Vaccination against the potentially lethal childhood diseases seems to me a good idea, a view shared by the health services and governments of every country in the world. I think I was the first editor to introduce the actual contents of MMR, that it is a mixture of three vaccines, prior to that readers were being presented with it as a separate thing from any of its components, something which has happened with an article on MMRV recently again. Midgley 16:56, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Google: MMR attenuated::

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® II (MEASLES, MUMPS, and RUBELLA VIRUS VACCINE LIVE) File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML women should receive live attenuated rubella vaccine (such as that contained in monovalent rubella. vaccine or in MMR II) to reduce the risk of exposure of ... www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/m/mmr_ii/mmr_ii_pi.pdf - Similar pages

Notice to Readers: Licensure of a Combined Live Attenuated Measles ... Notice to Readers: Licensure of a Combined Live Attenuated Measles, Mumps, ... ACIP recommendations for MMR and varicella vaccines have been previously ... www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5447a4.htm - 20k - Cached - Similar pages

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   Reactogenicity and immunogenicity of a live attenuated tetravalent ...
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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Licensure of a combined ... The attenuated measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine viruses in ProQuad are identical and of equal titer to those in the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) ... www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0906/is_47_54/ai_n15971325 - 36k - Cached - Similar pages

VaccinePlace.com - Search. Know More About Immunizations and ... Attenuated: Weakened; in vaccines, the weakening of a virus or bacteria to disable its ... FAQs (frequently asked questions) about MMR vaccine & autism. ... vaccineplace.com/?fa=explore/general/10 - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

Help? Given that the second reference is the Merck product information on the vaccines you were wrting up the formulation of, may I ask where you got the formulation information from that didn't describe the virus component in that fashion?

Compare and contrast if you will with inoculation which is with a virus, th Smallpox virus, selecting what is known or believed to be the natural Variola Minor strain of Smallpox, IE this is the using a non-attenuated virus of the organism concerned in the disease, or the induction of cross-immunity to Variola Major and Minor (and incidentally Camelpox and perhaps monkeypox) with Cowpox virus - not attenuated, not the same disease, which was the specific ground-breaking step by Edward Jenner. You may find the articles linked above interesting.