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Taking a vaccine may be a matter of personal choice when it comes to protecting an individual against a virus or bacteria, but it is also a matter of community protection, especially when the vaccine is highly effective at stopping spread and there are immunocompromised people around who can’t take the vaccine. They need our help to protect them by providing fewer hosts for the virus.

In the case of measles, mumps, and rubella, we are talking about viruses with the potential to make a child very sick, but the vaccine, which creates a wall of protection after two doses, uses a live attenuated (weakened) virus which cannot be taken by an immunocompromised child. This is because he or she doesn’t have the immune protection neede

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