"Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis in the United States: No Evidence of Elevated Risk after Simultaneous Intramuscular Injections of Vaccine."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, "During the past 30 years, Romania reported rates of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) approximately 10-fold higher than in the United States. The elevated VAPP risk was largely caused by multiple intramuscular (im) injections with antibiotics given within 30 days of onset of paralysis. Because it is not known whether im injections contribute to the VAPP risk in the United States, we examined VAPP cases reported since 1980. We reviewed injection histories of VAPP cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1980 to 1993: with vaccines for 1980 to...

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