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Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine for young children.

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By Michael Erman, Julie Steenhuysen and Mariam Sunny ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. vaccine advisers voted on Thursday to change the use of one of two key childhood vaccines under review, another step in U.

The panel advised that the vaccine known as MMRV not be given before age 4 and that children in this age group instead get separate vaccines — one against MMR and another for varicella, or chickenpox.

The panel said the vaccine, which includes protection against chickenpox, shouldn’t be given to children under age 4 because of a small risk for febrile seizures in younger kids.