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Single jabs

Many parents are demanding that single vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella are made available so they can protect their children without relying on MMR. They believe that giving a child a triple vaccine overloads their immune system and causes interference between the three different types of virus.

However, your child's immune system has to cope with hundreds of different viruses and bacteria at any one time. The three vaccines within MMR don't even work at the same time in your child's body.



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