MMRV Vaccine (Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella): What You Need to Know [2025]

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• Alternative Title:
  MMRV Vaccine (Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella): What You Need to Know [2025] [English] ; Vaccine Information Statement: MMRV Vaccine (Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella): What You Need to Know [2025]
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  A VIS or Vaccine Information Statement is a document, produced by CDC, that informs vaccine recipients – or their parents or legal representatives – about the benefits and risks of a vaccine they are receiving. All vaccine providers, public or private, are required by the National Vaccine Childhood Injury Act (NCVIA – 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-26) to give the appropriate VIS to the patient (or parent or legal representative) prior to every dose of specific vaccines. The appropriate VIS must be given prior to the vaccination, and must be given prior to each dose of a multi-dose series. It must be given regardless of the age of the recipient: from https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/about-vis/index.html.
  
  VISs have been translated into about 40 languages. These can be found on the website of CDC's partner, https://www.immunize.org/vis/. Not every VIS has been translated into every language.
  
  Why get vaccinated? MMRV vaccine can prevent measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella. MEASLES (M) causes fever, cough, runny nose, and red, watery eyes, commonly followed by a rash that covers the whole body. It can lead to seizures (often associated with fever), ear infections, diarrhea, and pneumonia. Rarely, measles can cause brain damage or death. MUMPS (M) causes fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, loss of appetite, and swollen and tender salivary glands under the ears. It can lead to deafness, swelling of the brain and/or spinal cord covering, painful swelling of the testicles or ovaries, and, very rarely, death. RUBELLA (R) causes fever, sore throat, rash, headache, and eye irritation. It can cause arthritis in up to half of teenage and adult women. If a woman gets rubella while she is pregnant, she could have a miscarriage, or the baby could be born with serious birth defects. VARICELLA (V), also called “chickenpox,” causes an itchy rash, in addition to fever, tiredness, loss of appetite, and headache. It can lead to skin infections, pneumonia, inflammation of the blood vessels, swelling of the brain and/or spinal cord covering, and infection of the blood, bones, or joints. Some people who get chickenpox get a painful rash called “shingles” (also known as herpes zoster) years later. Most people who are vaccinated with MMRV will be protected for life. Vaccines and high rates of vaccination have made these diseases much less common in the United States.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Chickenpox Chickenpox / Prevention & Control Chickenpox Vaccine Chickenpox Vaccine / Adverse Effects Measles Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine / Adverse Effects Measles / Prevention & Control Mumps Mumps / Prevention & Control Rubella Rubella / Prevention & Control Vaccines

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• Keywords:
  Varicella
• Series:
  Vaccine Information Statement
• Subseries:
  MMRV Vaccine
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet ; Patient Education Handout
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  Infectious Diseases
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• Download URL:
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