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Chapter 20: Rubella; Epidemiology and Prevention of ...
www.cdc.govvaccine is not available in the United States. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that MMR or MMRV vaccine be used when any of the individual components is indicated. Characteristics . MMR vaccine is a lyophilized preparation of measles virus vaccine live, an attenuated line of measles virus, derived from Enders ...
Chapter 16: Pertussis; Epidemiology and Prevention of ...
www.cdc.govchildhood diseases and a major cause of childhood mortality . in the United States. Before the availability of pertussis vaccine in the 1940s, more than 200,000 cases of pertussis were reported annually. Since widespread use of the vaccine began, incidence has decreased more than 75% compared with the prevaccine era.
Chapter 18: Polio; Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine ...
www.cdc.govthe United States in 1952, with more than 21,000 paralytic cases. Following introduction of effective vaccines in 1955 (inactivated polio vaccine, IPV) and 1961 (oral poliovirus vaccine, OPV), polio incidence declined rapidly. The last case of wild poliovirus acquired in the United States was in 1979. Poliovirus