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FDA: Hepatitis B Vaccine Safe In Infants
Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 21st, 1996
FDA researcher Manette T. Niu and colleagues found "no unexpected adverse events in neonates and infants despite use of an estimated 12 million doses of vaccine in this age group."
The data, from the FDA's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), was reported at a poster session of the American Society for Microbiology's 36th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held September 15-18, 1996, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (1996-10-21)
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