A live measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is associated with a decline in hospital admissions for any type of infection, according to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association
Researchers analyzed infection rates in a cohort of nearly 500,000 Danish children between 11 months and 2 years of age, who had been vaccinated on a recommended schedule for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Haemophilus influenzae type B.
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For children who had an MMR vaccine after their flu shot, the rate of hospital admission for infection was about half that of children for whom a flu shot was their most recent vaccine. For children who did not receive an on-time MMR vaccine, risk of hospital admission for infection was about half a percent higher, at 5.1 percent.
Researchers found 201 children vaccinated with MMR correlated with the prevention of hospital admission for one infection of any kind, according to the study.
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