Susan Ashley Speckhart

1 month ago | healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin |Kristen Dowd |Tina Tan |Susan Ashley Speckhart

Key takeaways: Two doses of MMR vaccine are 97% effective and leave recipients protected for life. Several populations of adults are not immune and may need another dose. A colleague who spends summers in New Mexico, where there is an ongoing measles outbreak, had a question for Healio’s infectious diseases news team: If she was vaccinated against measles in the 1960s, does she need another shot? The answer is not so cut and dried.