You should check out the moonbats over at mothering.com’s vaccine forum (which should probably be called the anti-vaccine forum). There are many there who actually don’t believe in herd immunity. They don’t believe that more people vaxed=less disease. Or maybe they have convinced themselves not to believe in it so that they can sleep at night and somehow justify their selfish behavior. I got into an argument with them once over this topic. They’re a bunch of bleeding hearts, so I asked them how they can justify not vaxing since it puts others at risk, and their response was that herd immunity doesn’t work. Yikes. There are some people on that forum that spend so much time on the topic you would think it was their full time job to research every quack’s opinion on the internet who’s anti-vax and pretend it’s legitimate scientific research.
” selfish behavior?”
DESCRIPTION
M-M-R II (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Virus Vaccine Live) is a live virus vaccine for vaccination against measles (rubeola), mumps and rubella (German measles). M-M-R II is a sterile lyophilized preparation of (1) ATTENUVAX’ (Measles Virus Vaccine Live), a more attenuated line of measles virus, derived from Enders’ attenuated Edmonston strain and propagated in chick embryo cell culture;
(2) MUMPSVAX* (Mumps Virus Vaccine Live), the Jerl Lynn (B level) strain of mumps virus propagated in chick embryo cell culture; and
***(3) MERUVAX’ll (Rubella Virus Vaccine Live), the Wistar RA 27/3 strain of live attenuated rubella virus propagated in WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts.***
The growth medium for measles and mumps is Medium 199 (a buffered salt solution containing vitamins and amino acids and supplemented with fetal bovine serum) containing SPGA (sucrose, phosphate, glutamate, and human albumin) as stabilizer and neomycin.
The growth medium for rubella is Minimum Essential Medium (MEM) [a buffered salt solution containing vitamins and amino acids and supplemented with fetal bovine serum] containing human serum albumin and neornycin. Sorbitol and hydrolyzed gelatin stabilizer are added to the individual virus harvests.
The cells, virus pools, fetal bovine serum, and human albumin are all screened for the absence of adventitious agents. Human albumin is processed using the Cohn cold ethanol fractionation procedure.
The reconstituted vaccine is for subcutaneous administration. Each 0.5 mL dose contains not less than 1,000 TCID(tissue culture infectious doses) of measles virus; 20,000 TCID of mumps virus; and 1,000 TCID of rubella virus. Each dose of the vaccine is calculated to contain sorbitol (14.5 mg), sodium phosphate, sucrose (1.9 mg), sodium chloride, hydrolyzed gelatin (14.5 mg), human albumin (0.3 mg), fetal bovine serum (<l ppm), other buffer and media ingredients and approximately 25 mcg of neomycin. The product contains no preservative.