{"id":205554,"date":"2025-10-06T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/205554\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:49:08","slug":"acting-cdc-director-oneill-calls-on-vaccine-makers-to-separate-combined-mmr-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/205554\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting CDC director O&#8217;Neill calls on vaccine makers to separate combined MMR shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reuters) -The acting director of the CDC, Jim O&#8217;Neill, in an X post on Monday called on vaccine manufacturers to develop three separate monovalent vaccines to replace the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This comes hours after O&#8217;Neill signed off on a vaccine advisory panel&#8217;s recommendation against the use of a combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine before the age of 4 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Instead, shots will be given for measles-mumps-rubella with a separate vaccine for varicella, commonly known as chickenpox.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s website there are currently no monovalent measles, mumps or rubella vaccines licensed for use in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Mariam Sunny and Christy Santhosh in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -The acting director of the CDC, Jim O&#8217;Neill, in an X post on Monday called on vaccine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97,118137,118140,118138,118139],"class_list":["post-205554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-jim-oneill-2","tag-measles-mumps-rubella-vaccine","tag-rubella-vaccines","tag-vaccine-manufacturers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}