Adverse Effects

No Relationship Between Sepsis, Hepatitis B Vaccine Researchers Report

Published in Vaccine Weekly, December 26th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Citing the results of a two and a half year investigation, research collaborators at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente say there is no evidence pointing to increased rates of fever or sepsis in infants given hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccines.

The prospective study, performed between November 1991 and April 1994, involved more than 3300 full-term newborns given hepatitis B vaccines within the first few weeks of birth. Side effects in that group were compared with those in a second group of over 2300 infants not given HBV vaccines within the same timeframe.

"There were no...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2001-12-26)

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