My Family and the Measles Vaccine

March 23, 2023

(Wall Street Journal) – Sixty years ago, in March 1963, the U.S. Surgeon General granted licenses to two drug companies to produce the first measles vaccines. It had taken nine years of research before a vaccine was ready for release to the public. That was too late for my sister, Mary Maura Grimaldi, who died at age 6 of encephalitis caused by measles, on the same day the licenses were announced. (Read More)