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CDC: Adverse Events After Vaccination Declining

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 10th, 1997

Despite vivid media accounts of adverse events following vaccination, reported severe reactions declined from 1991 to 1995.

The data come from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), established in 1991 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"Overall, the results of our analysis show that the reporting rates of total, serious, non-serious, and selected neurologic VAEs [vaccine adverse events] to VAERs has stayed stable or declined slightly," said CDC researcher Penina Haber.

Haber presented an analysis of VAERS data collected from the inception of the program through 1995 to the American Society...

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