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Infections logged
The phls study, published today in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, looks at data from hospitals in the former Thames region in south England from April 1991 and March 1995.
They monitored all cases of serious bacterial infection among one- to two-year-olds admitted to hospital within three months of the MMR jab.
They identified 436 hospital admissions in children who had been vaccinated with the MMR jab in the previous three months.
The researchers found no evidence that the MMR jab increased the risk of serious infection but that it seemed to protect children against pneumonia.
Dr Liz Miller, head of the immunisation division at the PHLS said that if vaccinating with three live viruses caused an `immune overload' susceptibility to infections would be expected to increase
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