The news these past few weeks has been dominated with
stories about vaccines: the
effectiveness of the flu vaccine, the
measles outbreak in Disneyland, the anti-vaxers
holding strong to their beliefs that vaccines are harmful. Well, a
new study published in The Journal of Pediatrics examined
records from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), and found
that many of the children with “alleged vaccine injury,” most commonly seizures
and/or encephalopathy (a disorder or disease of the brain), had pre-existing
conditions. This means that many of the claims linking vaccines to the
development of seizures were false.
Although vaccines have substantially reduced the toll of
many deadly communicable diseases, some remain fearful of vaccines because of
the alleged connection between vaccines and neurologic injury. However, a
committee of the Child Neurology Society concluded that the whole cell
pertussis vaccine is not linked to brain injury and epidemiologic studies have
not supported a causal relationship. Furthermore, studies have
concluded that neurologic injury is “highly unlikely to follow
diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus (DPT) immunizaton...... Read More.....
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