In recent years, many parents have urged that single vaccines should be administered to protect against the three diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella. Parents are perplexed in deciding between a single vaccine dosage and MMR dosage to protect their children. This is a true fact that administering single vaccines could reduce confidence in the vaccination programme which could lead to reduced uptake and putting more people at risk.

There is no confirmation to holding the idea that allowing single vaccines would lead to a bigger risk; the Uptake of MMR, and a real likelihood that it would have the reverse effect. Single vaccines would be less efficient than MMR, and there is no verification that they would be safer.

Rumours without any substantiated facts have tried to fail the idea of single dose vaccination. Uptake of the MMR vaccine spread all over the United Kingdom after unverified reports of a connection between the vaccine and cases of autism and inflammatory bowel disease came out. Some 3000 parents who consider that their kids were damaged by MMR are pursuing lawful action against the manufacturers, and some parents have demanded that their children be given single vaccines.

Still, the choice shall be made on the facts and for your reference some facts are described below;

1: Six separate injections have to be given over a long period of time. This is not only time consuming, but also the kids go through a painful exercise every time they are given a shot.

2: Study has revealed that fewer children would complete the full course of six jabs. That means that children are left unprotected against the diseases.

3: Babies will be at risk from their own family member like brothers and sisters who are unprotected. Children catch measles, mumps, or rubella between extended intervals; they will infect their younger brother or sisters who are still awaiting any vaccination. The most dangerous age to catch measles is under one year.

4: Children who did not have the MMR vaccine, like the ones going through cancer treatment will be more exposed to infection. Some years before MMR was introduced, half of the measles deaths occurred in children with leukaemia and similar conditions. These were children who might otherwise have survived. In the last ten years, not one child has died of acute measles.

5: Unprotected child can also put her mother at risk. Pregnant women will be at bigger risk of rubella infection from their own insecure children and the kids of their friends. If we leave young children unguarded against rubella, they will infect their own pregnant mothers or their mothers’ pregnant friends. This is exactly what happened before MMR was introduced.

There is no such substantiation at all that single vaccines have any edge or any added gain over combined vaccines. Neither is there any confirmation that single vaccines have any effect on rates of autism or bowel disease or any other such state.

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