Vaccine Safety

Most Chickenpox Vaccine Complications Found to be Minor

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 24th, 2000

The majority of adverse events associated with varicella vaccine, used to prevent chickenpox, are not serious, according to an article in the September 13, 2000, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Robert P. Wise, MD, MPH, from the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Rockville, Maryland, and colleagues analyzed adverse events reported to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from March 17, 1995, through July 25, 1998.

VAERS, jointly operated by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), consolidates voluntarily submitted reports of...

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