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Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta plans to recommend next month that every U.S. school, college and university offer a second dose of measles vaccine to anyone born after January 1, 1957, said Robert H. Snyder, a public health advisor for the federal agency.
"Generally we assume that people who were born before 1957 have had measles and are immune to it," Zuromskis said. "Subsequent to that there was a vaccine that was less than 100 percent effective--so everyone that had been vaccinated before 1967 but after 1957 was partially protected."
Zuromskis said studies show 20 percent of the people who should have been innoculated against measles between 1957 and 1980 do not have antibodies to the virus. Also, Zuromskis said, the vaccine that was used between 1957 and 1967 was not fully effective.
There are occasional outbreaks on college campuses, recently including North Carolina State at Raleigh, Siena and C.W. Post colleges in New York, Bradley University in Illinois, Kent State in Ohio and Texas Tech in Lubbock. The probable reason: students received vaccine made before 1980, when a lack of stabilizing ingredients...
"We didn't learn about the final strain until much later than normal," said Marshall Molloy, spokesperson for Morris Plains, N.J.-based ParkeDavis, another flu vaccine maker. He said the notification usually comes in February but didn't come until April this year.