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Posted On : 23 Mar 2005

IS PRIORIX VACCINE{MMR} SUPERIOR THAN CONVENTIONAL MMR VACCINES WHICH WE WERE PREVIOUSLY USING?

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Answer Discussion :

sangeetakumar

Marginally,Yes.

20 years ago

pediatriconcall

All the MMR vaccines available in our country and approved by the authorities are equally god, efficacious and safe. Theoretically the JL strain and its derivative strains of Mumps vaccine have shown the least chances of aseptic meningitis in the western literature. However this so called vaccine induced aseptic meningitis is as such rare and is usually self limiting without any long term complications and is clinically very mild. West though has different priorities, intolerance to even the rarest side effect and can afford the expensive vaccine, hence the west has virtually switched to the JL vaccine. Whereas countries like ours we can ill-afford to mass vaccinate children using the expensive vaccine.

20 years ago

Pravin G. Patel

Priorix vaccine is advertised on TV footage directly to parents.Please contact your doctor for details.Parents ask for good vaccines{TV advertsed}, By giving demand vaccine ,Passively we also accept its superiority. We{atleast I}have no knowledge regarding superiarity of priorix.This question on discussion board confirms that others have also doubt of superiority.
Till we are not fully satisfied regarding superiority we should use conventional MMR VACCINE.

Priorix is costing very high.conventional MMR VACCINE is cheap, timely tested since several years,with Good result.

20 years ago

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