U.S. National Institutes of Health

“It’s a cheap shot, MMR,” Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, undated

Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine

Merck, the pharmaceutical company that released the first rubella vaccine in 1969, combined the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines into a single shot in 1971. The MMR vaccine remains one of the recommended childhood vaccines in the United States.

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