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History of measles: Outbreaks and vaccine timeline - Mayo Clinic 1963 Dr Enders and his colleagues develop the live attenuated Edmonston B measles vaccine This vaccine and a second measles vaccine are licensed in 1963 Two other live attenuated measles vaccines will be licensed in 1965 and 1968 More than 500,000 cases of measles occurred each year in the U S in the 20th century compared with 47 cases in
Measles Vaccine - American Academy of Pediatrics Measles vaccine was introduced in the United States (US) in 1963 Before a vaccine was available, nearly everyone would acquire measles infection during childhood and more than 90% of persons were immune from measles by age 15 years, because of past infection
History of Measles Vaccine - National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) In early January 2015, the CDC began investigating and outbreak of measles linked to California’s Disneyland theme park resort In a statement released on January 23, 2015, the CDC announced that 51 confirmed cases of measles had been linked to the outbreak and encouraged MMR vaccination
Measles and the Modern History of Vaccination - PMC In fall 1962, a new measles vaccine was imminent, and producers at CBS wanted the story The producers reached out to the Office of the Surgeon General, whose information specialists were eager to help; after all, the US Public Health Service wanted publicity for the vaccine
History of Measles | Measles (Rubeola) | CDC In 1963, John Enders and colleagues transformed their Edmonston-B strain of measles virus into a vaccine and licensed it in the United States In 1968, an improved and even weaker measles vaccine, developed by Maurice Hilleman and colleagues, began to be distributed
History of measles vaccination - World Health Organization (WHO) Individual countries introduced mass vaccination programmes against measles at the national level from the 1960s on, and the first internationally focused measles immunization programmes took place in Africa from 1966
History of Measles vaccine in Timeline - Popular Timelines In 1971, Maurice Hilleman at Merck Co developed the MMR vaccine, which vaccinates against measles, mumps and rubella in a single shot followed by a booster One form is called "Attenuvax" Following outbreaks in 1977, there was increasing uptake of the measles vaccine
Measles | History of Vaccines Sam Katz, MD, an infectious disease specialist working with Thomas Peebles and other researchers in the Boston lab, tested the first version of the lab’s vaccine on developmentally delayed and disabled children at a school outside of Boston