Oncolytic Measles Virotherapy and Opposition to Measles Vaccination

Recent measles epidemics in US and European cities where vaccination coverage has declined are providing a harsh reminder for the need to maintain protective levels of immunity across the entire population. Vaccine uptake rates have been declining in large part because of public misinformation regarding a possible association between measles vaccination and autism for which there is no scientific basis. The purpose of this article is to address a new misinformed antivaccination argument —that measles immunity is undesirable because measles virus is protective against cancer.

Source: Mayo Clinic Proceedings - June 20, 2019 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Stephen J. Russell, Dusica Babovic-Vuksanovic, Alice Bexon, Roberto Cattaneo, David Dingli, Angela Dispenzieri, David R. Deyle, Mark J. Federspiel, Adele Fielding, Eva Galanis, Martha Q. Lacy, Bradley C. Leibovich, Minetta C. Liu, Miguel Mu ñoz-Alía, Ta Tags: Special article Source Type: research