{"id":10478,"date":"2025-10-08T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10478"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:50:38","slug":"experts-pan-call-to-break-up-the-measles-mumps-and-rubella-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/08\/experts-pan-call-to-break-up-the-measles-mumps-and-rubella-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Pan Call to Break Up the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pediatrics\/vaccines\/117835\">MedPage Today<\/a> &#8220;I cannot think of a single reason to implement such a concept&#8221; The temporary CDC head&#8217;s call to split apart the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate shots drew swift rebukes from pediatric and infectious disease experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I call on vaccine manufacturers to develop safe monovalent vaccines to replace the combined MMR,&#8221; Acting CDC Director Jim O&#8217;Neill said Monday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HHS_Jim\/status\/1975208317850116544\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"on Xopens in a new tab or window, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Xopens in a new tab or window<\/a>. His statement affirmed an all-caps social media post last month by President Donald Trump to &#8220;break up the MMR shot into three totally separate shots (not mixed!).&#8221; O&#8217;Neill offered no details on why or how such an approach should be implemented.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPage Today &#8220;I cannot think of a single reason to implement such a concept&#8221; The temporary CDC head&#8217;s call to split apart the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate shots drew swift rebukes from pediatric and infectious disease experts. &#8220;I call on vaccine manufacturers to develop safe monovalent vaccines to replace the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10479,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions\/10479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}