Revised ACIP Recommendation for Avoiding Pregnancy After Receiving a Rubella-Containing Vaccine.

Reports that the United States Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has shortened its recommended period to avoid pregnancy after receipt of rubella-containing vaccine from three months to 28 days. How measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and its component vaccines should not be administered to women known to be pregnant; Goal of the U.S. rubella vaccination program, which is to prevent congenital rubella infection.