Babies born prematurely generate a protective immune response to two routine vaccines as strongly as full-term babies do. The finding casts doubt on a commonly held view that premature babies given the chickenpox and measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccines at the same age as full-term infants don’t get the same benefit.
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