Can the type of delivery affect a child's risk of getting measles after vaccination? The researchers now say that children born via C-section are at more than double the risk of getting measles after a single dose of vaccine compared to those born naturally.
The research team from the University of Cambridge, UK, and Fudan University, China, who led a recent study found that a single dose of measles vaccine is 2.6 times more likely to be completely ineffective in children born by cesarian. To have robust protection against measles, children born with C-sections should receive two doses of the vaccination, according to the results published in the journal Nature Microbiology.
