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Editorial

Nature Immunology 9, 1317 (1 December 2008) | doi:10.1038/ni1208-1317

A case of junk science, conflict and hype

The year 2008 has seen more outbreaks of mumps and measles in the USA, Canada, and UK, among other Western countries. Both diseases had been almost completely eradicated in the Western hemisphere before the 1990s because of the introduction of the measles mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in 1979.