Vaccines are supposed to protect us from getting a disease. But that hasn’t been the case with Covid-19, and the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) jab isn’t always preventing children from contracting measles, a new study has discovered.
Nearly 8 percent of children who caught measles in Milan, Italy had been vaccinated, say researchers from the city’s Degli Studi university.
They investigated 653 cases of measles in the city and Northern Italy and, of these, 51 had been vaccinated. Eleven in the vaccine group reacted so badly to their infection that they needed hospital care.
Overall, vaccinated children contracted measles in each of the 20 outbreaks recorded in the region between 2017 and 2021 and were able to pass on the virus in half of the cases.
The researchers say that vaccine failures were the result of a poor immune response to the MMR.
(Source: Viruses, 2022; 145: 1068)
