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The History of the Mumps Vaccine
The first mumps vaccine test was actually a pretty small study, 16 children at the trendler school in pennsylvania. And these 16 children were injected with maurice's experimental mumps vaccine in june of 19 65. The results were clear, fortunately, the vaccine was both safe and produced antibodies against mumps. But one thing still had to be answered: Did this vaccine actually prevent disease? We saw anna bodies, but were those anna bodies enough to prevent disease from actually infection, from actually happening?