The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s vaccine advisory panel voted on Thursday to no longer recommend a particular form of vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox, which will have sweeping implications for insurance coverage.
Eight members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to recommend that the less commonly used combined vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella, commonly known as the MMRV vaccine, should not be given to children under age four due to heightened seizure risk.
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