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Disease

Disease

  • Measles is an infectious disease that is highly contagious with symptoms of high fever, cough, red eyes, and rashes on the skin.
  • Possible complications caused by measles are serious lung infection, such as pneumonia. Although severe cases are rare, measles can cause swelling of the brain and even death.
  • Mumps is a contagious disease that can spread when infected people cough, sneeze, or talk. Sharing items with infected people (i.e. cups, water bottles) can also lead to the spread of virus.
  • Mumps symptoms are fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, loss of appetite and swelling on one or both of parotid glands (parotitis)
  • Mumps complication can occasionally lead to swelling of the brain, testicles, ovaries or breast. It can also cause temporary or permanent deafness.
  • Rubella, also called German measles, is a disease that spreads through the air when an infected individual coughs or sneezes.
  • Many people who get rubella never have symptoms or have only mild symptoms. For people who have symptoms, a red rash is typically the first sign. Other symptoms can include fever, headache, red eyes,general discomfort, swollen and enlarged lymph nodes, cough, and runny nose.
  • Rubella infection in a pregnant woman is dangerous. If a pregnant woman gets rubella, her baby could have birth defects such as deafness, cataracts, heart defects, mental disabilities, and organ damage.

More about M-M-R®II

Efficacy Data

M-M-R®II vaccine helping to protect generations of children from 3 childhood disease – measles, mumps, and rubella

Indication

M-M-R®II (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Virus Vaccine Live) is a vaccine indicated for active immunization for the prevention of measles,

Picture adapted from CDC, Mumps, Epidemiology & Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases.

References:

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Travelers’ Health, Measles. Available From: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/measles.
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Travelers’ Health, Mumps. Available From: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/mumps.
  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Traveler’s Health, Rubella. Available From: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/diseases/rubella.

PH-MMR-00015 Oct/2024