Reactions to Live-Measles-Virus Vaccine in Children Previously Inoculated with Killed-Virus Vaccine

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ONE of the recommended technics of vaccination against measles is to give a course of killed-measles-virus vaccine followed, after an interval of months, by a booster of live attenuated measles virus either accompanied or unaccompanied by gamma globulin.1 This technic is advocated as preventing the untoward reactions that may accompany the administration of the live virus even when gamma globulin is given coincidentally.In a certain number of these children, a local and, sometimes, general reaction may follow the final inoculation of the live-virus vaccine and may be severe enough to bring the child to the physician. This may occur . . .

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